Installworld and /usr/include/*.h modification times

Christer Solskogen christer.solskogen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 07:11:01 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Why are /usr/include files installed with "install -C" during "make
> installworld"  when almost everything else is installed without the -C
> flag? This makes it harder to track which files were actually
> installed during the last "make installworld". One can easily find
> obsolete files  (that are not covered with make delete-old(-libs))
> with "find -x / -type f -mtime +suitable_time" but this doesn't work
> for /usr/include files because the modification times are not bumped
> on "make installworld".
>

If you want, you can do this /after/ a buildworld

# mv /usr/include /usr/include.old
# cd /usr/src
# make hierarchy
# make installincludes
-- 
chs,


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