From:	ROBERT_FINLEY AT ntsc DOT navy DOT mil
Date:	Mon, 04 May 98 10:09:46 EST
Message-Id:	<9804048943.AA894308453@CCMAIL.NTSC.NAVY.MIL>
To:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	RE: Make "Clock Skew" problem.

Your point is absolutely correct, I suppose I was exaggerating a little. 
DOS/WINDOWS does suck ... but I need it for work, what am I going to do.

Since my previous message, I have found that indeed it is only a warning and
that some of the other problems I was having getting the program to build were
operator error and unrelated to make.  I am not a GNUru yet, but I am working on
it.

I have found that DOS 7 also seems to  have a problem with STDIN/STDOUT
redirection.  The following statement does not execute properly from my Makefile
and executes properly 1 out of 3 times from the command line:

output : main.exe
        main.exe < input > output

I need to investigate further, but the fact it WILL work 1 out of 3 times tells
me it is not my program.

Thanks for the help with the patches.  I will investigate and post the results.

Thanks,
Rob Finley

-----Original Message-----
From:   Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> 
Sent:   Sunday, May 03, 1998 11:11 AM
To:     ROBERT FINLEY
Cc:     djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:        Re: Make "Clock Skew" problem.


On Fri, 1 May 1998 ROBERT_FINLEY AT ntsc DOT navy DOT mil wrote:

> However with a broken "make", I can't really use it.  I will be glad
> to help in my spare time on this, since I can repeat the problem
> EVERY time, but since I am only an apprentice, I will need some
> direction and someone to send results to.

``Broken "make"'' and ``can't really use it'' seem like a wild
exaggeration to me.  We are talking about a warning that gets printed,
it doesn't stop Make from working as best as it could, so what's your
problem?  Does it fail to build the program(s)?  Does it recompile
files which don't need to be?  If not, why should you worry so much
because of a mere warning?

Besides, it's not Make that's broken, it's the Windows filesystem.
Can somebody explain how could a filesystem set time stamps of files
it creates to be 2 seconds in the future relative to the system clock,
and still call itself a filesystem?

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