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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:31:42 +0100
From: Jacek Piskozub <piskozub AT iopan DOT gda DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1
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> After installing cygwin-1.5.13-1 I cannot build Mozilla anymore. 
> During updating the mozilla tree using cvs I receive "cannot set time" 
> errors. The updated files have (wrongly) the current time, instead of 
> the expected original timestamp when they were checked into the cvs 
> tree. That would not be critical if the same error did not happen 
> while building the build dependencies. This kills the compilation.
>
> All this happens on Windows ME. The CVS I use is 1.11.17 (cygwin 
> supplied).
>
> The problem stopped after downgrading to cygwin-1.5.12-1.


I'll add that obviously Windows ME I use implies FAT32. I believe this 
is a ctime <-> FAT problem.

Jacek

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