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 , eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: RE: Make "Clock Skew" problem. Precedence: bulk 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 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?