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obsolete section in make 3.79.2a1 README


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: obsolete section in make 3.79.2a1 README
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:39:32 -0700 (PDT)

A section of the GNU make 3.79.2a1 README file describes the configure
option --disable-nsec-timestamps, which no longer exists.  Here's a patch.

2002-05-17  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * README: Remove mention of --disable-nsec-timestamps.
        This change was part of the 2000-07-23 patch, but somehow
        it didn't get installed.

Only in make-3.79.2a1-fix: job.c~
Only in make-3.79.2a1-fix: README~
diff -pru make-3.79.2a1/README make-3.79.2a1-fix/README
--- make-3.79.2a1/README        2002-05-13 07:58:39.000000000 -0700
+++ make-3.79.2a1-fix/README    2002-05-17 12:27:48.355524000 -0700
@@ -121,14 +121,3 @@ files (LFS) in configure for those opera
 Please report any bugs that you find in this area.  If you run into
 difficulties, then as a workaround you should be able to disable LFS by
 adding the `--disable-largefile' option to the `configure' script.
-
-On systems that support micro- and nano-second timestamp values and
-where stat(2) provides this information, GNU make will use it when
-comparing timestamps to get the most accurate possible result.  However,
-at the moment there is no system call (that I'm aware of) that will
-allow you to *set* a timestamp to a micro- or nano-second granularity.
-This means that "cp -p" and other similar tools (tar, etc.) cannot
-exactly duplicate timestamps with micro- and nano-second granularity.
-If your build system contains rules that depend on proper behavior of
-tools like "cp -p", you should configure make to not use micro- and
-nano-second timestamps with the --disable-nsec-timestamps flag.



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