Re: cygwin/mingw experiences

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> - something is broken in the Makefile rules that causes regeneration
>   of toplevel aclocal.m4 during `make check', after
>     reconfdirs=. ./bootstrap
>   (on HEAD/branch-2-0).
>   I suspect this is a timestamp resolution issue.

ISTR that Windows file systems have only 2 second resolution, so it is
very easy to get into race conditions.  This problem is getting worse
as systems get faster:  when I last used cygwin regularly, about 5 years
ago, the average machine running cygwin was so slow that it didn't bite
too often.  A strategic 'sleep 4' is almost certainly the fix...
unfortunately, finding the right spot is likely to be a real PITA :-(

Cheers,
        Gary.
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