Re: Automake violations of the gnu coding conventions

[K. Richard Pixley]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > Are we talking about one of your own projects?  Or are we talking
> > > about other projects that you are trying to build?
> > Projects that I'm trying to build.  Hundreds of them.  Projects that 
> > won't be fixed in their current incarnations even if we correct 
> > automake now.  It'll
> Since you can't fix all these projects at once, then I suggest to stop 
> using the MS-DOS FAT filesystem due to its poor timestamp resolution. 
> Use NTFS instead.
I'm on Ubuntu, not dos.  It's source code control, (perforce, cvs, 
subversion), that has a different idea of how time stamps should be 
handled than automake does.  It tends to think that the last mod time of 
a file should be the time the file was last checked out.  And on a unix 
system, that makes perfect sense and is completely fitting the the 
semantic of the last mod stamp of the file system.

Unfortunately, that doesn't fit with the usage that automake currently 
requires.

--rich