Re: make bin got dumb because of "Fix description in lily/include/smobs.hh"

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Now comes the most surprising part: just to make sure, i just did
>> the following:
>> checkout origin/master  # local master contained a revert of that commit
>> make from scratch
>> add a trivial change
>> make bin  ...succeeds!  Are you a magician or something?
>> checkout master
>> reset --hard HEAD~1  # throw out revert and the trivial change -
>> master is identical to origin/master
>> make bin  ...doesn't work properly.
>>
>> wtf!  This is beyond my mind to comprehend.
>
> I've checked that another branch with some patches of mine 'makes bin'
> correctly now (with your patch).  No idea why, despite quite numerous
> makes from scratch, it didn't work before.

It is almost certainly a problem with your system clock.  If you have
touched source files with a future clock, and now the clock is right,
then compiled files will be outdated ("older" than the source file)
immediately after compilation again.

-- 
David Kastrup