automake
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Spurious rebuilds


From: craig . howard
Subject: Re: Spurious rebuilds
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 16:15:36 -0700
User-agent: KMail/1.5.9

On May 4, 2003 03:11 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "craig" == craig howard <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  craig> I'm having trouble with spurious rebuilds caused by
>  craig> autoconf/automake projects.  This problem is _not_
>  craig> happening with handmade makefiles.  What's happening is
>  craig> that everytime I execute make, the entire project is
>  craig> rebuilt, regardless of whether or not each file needs to
>  craig> be.
>
>  craig> I was able to duplicate the problem with a skeleton project of the
>  craig> following
>
> This works fine for me (using autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.4,
> but that shouldn't matter).
>
>  craig> Is there something simple that I've misconfigured?  I
>  craig> doubt it's a problem with the configure.in or
>  craig> Makefile.am files, as I have the same issue with KDE
>  craig> CVS.
>
> A wild guess: are you compiling these things in an NFS mounted
> directory?  Weird timestamp issues are often caused by NFS
> clients which aren't date-synchronized with NFS servers.
>
> [...]

Yes, thanks.  I resolved this issue.  Somehow the timestamps on my system 
files were set to the year 2024.  I have no idea how it happened (it is a 
local filesystem), but touching all files with the incorrect timestamp 
worked.  

I blamed the project on autoconf/automake because the one 
non-autoconf/automake project I tried didn't include any system headers.  Go 
figure, eh?

Thanks for the response.
-- 


Craig Howard
3B Computer Science -- University of Waterloo
address@hidden




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]