Re: hardcoded -C argument to ${INSTALL}

In message <3EB8109D.2060307_at_isi.edu>, Lars Eggert writes:
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>Hi,
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>I'm putting a script together that will remove stale pieces after an 
>installworld, and my find+mtime approach chokes, because some uses of 
>${INSTALL} in the Makefiles hardcode the -C argument, which will cause 
>file modification times to not be updated if the files are identical.

I would argue this is actually the correct behaviour.o

My suggestion for such a tool would be to run make installworld with
a DESTDIR set, and compare the two trees ?

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