Re: gmake 3.78.1 timestamp problem?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Zartaj T. Majeed" <address@hidden> writes:

  ztm> I'm using GNU make 3.78.1 on Solaris 8.
  ztm> GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
  ztm> Built for sparc-sun-solaris2.6

  ztm> While building a big tree of C source files that get added to
  ztm> various archive libraries, I consistently see some .o's not added
  ztm> to an archive as they should be, even though the archive library
  ztm> has the .o's as dependencies and they are newer than the archive.

It's possible you're falling afoul of the subsecond timestamp support
added in GNU make.

You might try upgrading to the latest version (3.79.1), and building GNU
make with the configuration option --disable-nsec-timestamps to disable
support for subsecond timestamps.  Hopefully that will solve this
problem.

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