$(TOUCH) in Perl: any reason not to use utime()?

2005-04-04 Thread Chip Salzenberg
Currently, config/gen/makefiles/root.in says: TOUCH = $(PERL) -e ${PQ}open(A,qq{$$_}) or die foreach @ARGV${PQ} However, this fails for my source tree. I habitually leave CVS-controlled files write-only until they are locally modified. (This is cvs -r behavior, also triggered by

Re: $(TOUCH) in Perl: any reason not to use utime()?

2005-04-04 Thread Steve Peters
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Currently, config/gen/makefiles/root.in says: TOUCH = $(PERL) -e ${PQ}open(A,qq{$$_}) or die foreach @ARGV${PQ} However, this fails for my source tree. I habitually leave CVS-controlled files write-only until they are

Re: $(TOUCH) in Perl: any reason not to use utime()?

2005-04-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Currently, config/gen/makefiles/root.in says: TOUCH = $(PERL) -e ${PQ}open(A,qq{$$_}) or die foreach @ARGV${PQ} However, this fails for my source tree. I habitually leave CVS-controlled files write-only until they are