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From: Magnus Holmgren <lear@algonet.se>
Subject:  Re: /dev/null timing and clock skew problems
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:28:22 +0000 (UTC)
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Aaron Gray writes:

> > The #if statement starting on that line is just for the three second 
> > clearance. I use it on a local build of Make and it seems to work 
> > well.
> 
> The "<file> has modification time 0.0096 s in the future" were harmless.
> 
> But the "Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete." can possibly 
> indicate an incomplete build.
> This seems to be a problem on my slower machine XP, but not on my newer 
> Vista one.
> 
> Were you getting clock skew problems too ?

Yes, but they were caused by the imprecise file times (which triggers the clock
skew message), as I was building on a FAT32 partition. Enabling the code in the
#if statement fixed the file time issue, which only happened for files that were
created during the build.

  Magnus



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