%% "Chen, Shihong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cs> The final action of our makefile is to have the executables and
cs> header files moved to the build directory using INSTALL, which
cs> will always override the previous one even there is no change. Is
cs> that a single command to do it more intelligently? Basically, the
cs> file difference will be checked first before the copying, so the
cs> previous timestamp will be kept if there is no change with the
cs> former build.
If what you're describing here is what you _want_ to happen, you can
easily do this with a command something like this:
cmp -s $@ $< && $(INSTALL) $@ ...
Is that what you're looking for?
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