Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:43:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Petteri Kangaslampi <pekangas AT sci DOT fi>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Make v3.76.1 bug?
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On 5 Oct 1997, Petteri Kangaslampi wrote:

> BTW, have I mentioned lately that I hate GNU Make? A lot. With passion.
> Visual C runtime library wins though - after some problems with my
> computer ending the daylight savings time a month too early, VCs stat()
> and time() now return times with a one hour difference for a file that has
> just been modified. When all files seem to be modified one hour in the
> future, you can probably guess how well make works...

So why do you insist on compiling Make with such a broken library?  
Either toss it, or roll your own replacement functions, and never look 
back.

No program, no matter how good it is, can beat a buggy library it is 
linked against.