Re: Makefile timestamp synchronization problem

[Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> You're not missing anything.

:(

> He's basically hosed.  This is precisely why every machine should be
> running some kind of time sync daemon (xntp for example).  Of course
> I've been too lazy to do this on my machines, so I hit the same problem
> on occasion.

That's what I thought.  

> Usually a few well placed touch commands will clear up the problem for
> any given build cycle.  Of course when they update the sources they'll
> probably need a few more well placed touch commands.

I can see why this would work but I don't want to get involved in trying
this one.  It is a nightmare. 

> ps.  I'm just assuming xntp is still the time sync daemon of choice;
> it's been about 10 years since I worked on network time protocols.  Long
> live the fuzzballs!

Looks like it still is.  See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/

When I searched the Linux SW Map, that was the only hit on "time
synchronization".

Thanks.  

--joel