generic build doubts, part 2

[Lapo Luchini]

Packaging libungif I had the need to slightly change configure, but had 
not the will to autoreconf it all, unnecessarily creating a huge patch 
where only a single line change was needed.
At this very time I discovered patch doesn't by default sets times, and 
uses current time unless -Z is used.
This of course triggered the "missing" upon make invokation, which is 
not wanted, if the user doesn't have the autotools, and in this specific 
case is just lost time anyway.

So I figured: why patch has this strange default?
Shouldn't we use -Z by default?
Would that have "bad effects" apart from the good effect that I wouldn't 
have turned crazy understanding why file date was current even if I 
"patched the patch" to have the correct time?

Lapo

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