Subject: Re: Build race conditions, any solution?
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/12/2002 07:40:49
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Robert Elz wrote:

> The problem is that when I do my "update my sources" the mod time of
> the include file that was updated earlier, gets set to the time the
> include file was modified.  Note that's before I did my "make build".
> When I did that, the mod time of the installed include files got set to
> "now" (or that's what happened to me anyway).

I think that's only a problem with "sup". When "cvs" updates a file, it
changes the mtime to the present time. One more reason to ditch "sup".

Frederick