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To:	ROBERT_FINLEY AT ntsc DOT navy DOT mil, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Make "Clock Skew" problem.
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 22:10:38 -0700
Message-ID:	<19980502051013.AAJ531@ppp122.cartsys.com>

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At 09:00  5/1/1998 EST, ROBERT_FINLEY AT ntsc DOT navy DOT mil wrote:
>
>I was very disappointed to find this problem in the mail archives.  I assumed 
>it was a problem with my installation.  When I downloaded "djgpp" it seemed
like
>it was going to be just the trick.  A GNU/Unix style compiler which I could run
>on my laptop and play with in my spare time to learn more about the GNU tool
>chain (we use Solaris and VxWorks here at work) and still use the latest
Windows
>95 for work.
>
>However with a broken "make", I can't really use it.  I will be glad to help in
>my spare time on this, since I can repeat the problem EVERY time, but since
I am
>only an apprentice, I will need some direction and someone to send results
to.  
>
>If someone already has a fix or workaround, I would like to get a hold of it.

I don't have a system which reproduces it, but try this patch (at end of
message). You may need to use the `dosbuild' batch file to rebuild `make' to
avoid a catch-22. I can rebuild `make' with it and send you the binary if
you have trouble building `make' yourself.

Please post the outcome.

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*** remake.c~	Wed Aug 27 20:31:24 1997
--- remake.c	Fri May  1 22:07:22 1998
***************
*** 1085,1091 ****
  	extern time_t time ();
  	time (&now);
  
! #ifdef WINDOWS32
  	/*
  	 * FAT filesystems round time to nearest even second(!). Just
  	 * allow for any file (NTFS or FAT) to perhaps suffer from this
--- 1085,1091 ----
  	extern time_t time ();
  	time (&now);
  
! #if defined(WINDOWS32) || defined(__DJGPP__)
  	/*
  	 * FAT filesystems round time to nearest even second(!). Just
  	 * allow for any file (NTFS or FAT) to perhaps suffer from this
***************
*** 1093,1098 ****
--- 1093,1100 ----
  	 *
  	 * Apparently, this doesn't happen with the MS-DOS/DJGPP port,
  	 * although MS-DOS and MS-Windows 3.X/9X also use FAT filesystems.
+ 	 *
+ 	 * (Actually, it has been reported, hence the conditional --NE)
  	 */
  	if (mtime > now && (((mtime % 2) == 0) && ((mtime-1) > now)))
  #else

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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com



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