The rationale here is to avoid updating a timestamp for a file that
hasn't changed. Needless updates of the timestamp can ripple into
other projects, (xserver, etc.), useless recompiling due to a
'make install' in mesa that didn't actually change anything.
---
 bin/minstall |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/minstall b/bin/minstall
index 8ee9608..1300258 100755
--- a/bin/minstall
+++ b/bin/minstall
@@ -66,8 +66,11 @@ if [ $# -ge 2 ] ; then
 
                elif [ -f "$FILE" ] ; then
                        #echo "$FILE" is a regular file
-                       $RM "$DEST/`basename $FILE`"
-                       cp "$FILE" "$DEST"
+                       # Only copy if the files differ
+                       if ! cmp -s $FILE $DEST/`basename $FILE`; then
+                               $RM "$DEST/`basename $FILE`"
+                               cp "$FILE" "$DEST"
+                       fi
                        if [ $MODE ] ; then
                                FILE=`basename "$FILE"`
                                chmod $MODE "$DEST/$FILE"
-- 
1.6.3.1


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