RE: updating target at the end of recipe, after updating prerequisites, might not work?

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 08:12 -0700, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> Why would the modify timestamp be rounded to the nearest second???
> This is what's causing the problem.  It is always like that for this
> file.  
> 
> address@hidden: stat dist/yang.tar.gz
>   (...)
> Access: 2011-10-07 08:06:42.221586000 -0700
> Modify: 2011-10-07 08:06:42.000000000 -0700
> Change: 2011-10-07 08:06:42.525407000 -0700

This typically means that whatever application is updating this file is
trying to explicitly set the timestamp rather than just allowing the
filesystem to set it (for example, cp -p or touch), and that application
is not built in such a way that it supports setting sub-second
timestamps as mod times on files.