Re: Any option in make to ignore date

[Philip Guenther]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Vivek Katakam <address@hidden> wrote:
> While compiling one of the sources, make is going in recursive cycles
> with the message:
> Clock skew detected.

This almost always is because you're building on a file system mounted
from another machine whose clock is behind (showing an earlier time)
than the local machine.

THE ONLY FIX IS TO SYNCHRONIZE THE CLOCKS.


> Some of the sources are backdated.

It's okay for source files to have timestamps in the past.  The
problem comes when a newly created file has a timestamp before a file
that already exists.


> Is there any option in make to avoid this error.

The *whole point* of make is that it compares timestamps to determine
which targets need to be updated.  How could make work around a system
that lies?


Philip Guenther