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Re: Makefile timestamp synchronization problem
- To: Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>
- Subject: Re: Makefile timestamp synchronization problem
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:49:48 -0400
- Cc: N8TM at aol dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
>>>>> Joel Sherrill writes:
Joel> On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 N8TM@aol.com wrote:
>> I have seen these warnings occasionally when building on cygwin32/NT4 with all
>> files local (never on cygwin32/w95), and frequently when building on HPUX10.20
>> with files on a server. I'll try it next week building locally on HPUX10.20.
>> I've never seen any failures associated with this, so I've always ignored
>> them. It would be nice to have fewer "expected" warnings so that it's easier
>> to spot trouble.
Joel> How can this happen on a completely local build? You should always be
Joel> getting a consistent date/time which is increasing when on a single
Joel> machine. Being on a network opens up the possibility of the server's time
Joel> not matching that on a client.
We've found some timestamp problems with cygwin32/96 as well.
David