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From: | K. Richard Pixley |
Subject: | Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions |
Date: | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:14:29 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) |
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
I'm on Ubuntu, not dos. It's source code control, (perforce, cvs, subversion), that has a different idea of how time stamps should be handled than automake does. It tends to think that the last mod time of a file should be the time the file was last checked out. And on a unix system, that makes perfect sense and is completely fitting the the semantic of the last mod stamp of the file system.On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, K. Richard Pixley wrote:Since you can't fix all these projects at once, then I suggest to stop using the MS-DOS FAT filesystem due to its poor timestamp resolution. Use NTFS instead.Bob Proulx wrote:Projects that I'm trying to build. Hundreds of them. Projects that won't be fixed in their current incarnations even if we correct automake now. It'llAre we talking about one of your own projects? Or are we talking about other projects that you are trying to build?
Unfortunately, that doesn't fit with the usage that automake currently requires.
--rich
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