Re: Linux 2.6 nanosecond time stamp weirdness breaks GCC build

From: Ulrich Weigand
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 17:51:50 EST


Joe Buck wrote:

> Case 2: make falsely thinks that the .c is younger than the .o. It
> recompiles the .c file, even though it didn't have to. Harmless.

*Not* harmless, in fact this is exactly what breaks my bootstrap.

Think about what happens when cc1 is 'harmlessly' rebuilt just
while in a parallel make that very same cc1 binary is used to
run a compile ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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