re-compiling apache

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:43:27 PDT 2004


Feigning erudition, m.w.chang wrote:
% 
% I am learning to re-compile apache, and for milk's sake,
% why would the installation script touched the /usr/include/ctype.h?
% As a result, after I used checkinstall to make install, a subsequent 
% and rpm -e apache would delete /usr/include/ctype.h.

Did the build process *change* the header file, or just touch it, that
is, modify the timestamp?  If the file was modified, then that's quite 
distburbing and certainly not something I want userspace software doing
to system header files.

Kurt
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