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Re: [PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: [PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:58:32 -0600

Hi Harald and all - well, Paul or Jim or any other automake worker will
know better than me, but my reactions, FWIW:

    This caused intermittent failures in automake's t/subobj.sh test, which

This problem seems like the tip of the iceberg to me. With this change,
any dependency which gets updated in the same second as the target will
now have to get remade. Possibly looping forever, it seems to me?

I have not seen a deluge of (or any) reports about timestamp precision
being a problem before this.

    runs aclocal+automake, modifies configure.ac, and immediately re-runs
    aclocal+automake. On sufficiently fast computers, this would not update
    the cache files.

Maybe aclocal and/or automake and/or other autoprograms should just
sleep 1 before exiting (or at whatever crucial junctures) if this
problem must be avoided at all costs.

But better -- as Paul, I guess, said, how about if up_to_date_p uses
subsecond timestamps if available, so the < test remains unchanged?
After all, if subsecond timestamps are not available, it's highly
probable that it's an old machine and it's all a non-issue. --best, karl.



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