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bug #4174: 3.80: -B doesn't work with future timestamps

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Wed 02 Jul 2003 07:47:29 PM UTC  
 
Severity: 3 - NormalItem Group: Bug
Status: Works for mePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed
Component Version: NoneOperating System: POSIX-Based
Fixed Release: NoneTriage Status: None

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Mon 28 Feb 2005 08:32:30 AM UTC, comment #3:

There is no name attached to this bug so I don't see how we're ever going to get more details on this. I'm closing it for now. If someone has more details, please add a note and I'll see that and can re-open the bug.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Project Administrator
Mon 28 Feb 2005 08:31:07 AM UTC, comment #2:

I can't reproduce this problem. I can get make to complain about clock skew with -B, but it always continues to update files as I would expect, even though the warnings are printed. In fact even without -B make will not halt when it detects a clock skew problem.

Can you provide an example makefile, and/or show the output you received and explain what is not being done properly?

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Project Administrator
Fri 14 Nov 2003 10:31:20 AM UTC, comment #1:

What I don not understand is why clock skew is an issue.
The timestamp of a file is determined on write, not on when gmake compares two timestamps. In other words gmake should not care about the current time and therefor clock skew should be a non-issue

Anonymous
Wed 02 Jul 2003 07:47:29 PM UTC, original submission:

Due to clock skew on a samba share beyond my control, an included makefile in my project has a timestamp set in the future. I hoped to avoid timestamp issues by using the -B flag on the command line, but make warns and halts regardless.

In my opinion, make should ignore all timestamp issues and execute the target rules when the -B flag is used. That's how I inferrred the option to work from its description in the manual.

gmake v. 3.80, SunOS 5.7

Anonymous

 

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