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Andy Dougherty  
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 More options Dec 1 2003, 9:49 am
Newsgroups: perl.perl6.internals
From: dough...@lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:43:56 -0500 (EST)
Local: Mon, Dec 1 2003 9:43 am
Subject: Re: cvs commit: parrot/config/gen/makefiles root.in

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> JüRgen" "BöMmels <boemm...@cvs.perl.org> wrote:
> >   +TOUCH  = $(PERL) -e ${PQ}open(A,qq{>>$$_}) or die foreach @ARGV${PQ}

> Well done. *But* this f*cking command does still not update time stamps.

> Is this a Perl5 failure? Anyway, we need a (golfy) touch equivalent for
> these poor systems not providing one.

I can think of one other potential problem:  What if the user wants to
mount the source read-only?  Last I checked, except for this issue, it was
possible to do so.  For perl5, this ability was often requested.

--
    Andy Dougherty              dough...@lafayette.edu


 
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