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Re: Makefile timestamp synchronization problem
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 HPUX100 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.
On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 08:26:37AM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> How can this happen on a completely local build? You should always be
> getting a consistent date/time which is increasing when on a single
> machine. Being on a network opens up the possibility of the server's time
> not matching that on a client.
Perhaps the granularity is too low. (Filesystem ticks every 2 seconds
on FAT doesn't it?)
-- Jamie