> It is almost certainly a problem with your system clock. If you have > touched source files with a future clock, and now the clock is right, > then compiled files will be outdated ("older" than the source file) > immediately after compilation again.
There is a special built-in target in GNU make: `.LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME' If you specify prerequisites for `.LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME', `make' assumes that these files are created by commands that generate low resolution time stamps. The recipe for the `.LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME' target are ignored. The high resolution file time stamps of many modern file systems lessen the chance of `make' incorrectly concluding that a file is up to date. Unfortunately, some hosts do not provide a way to set a high resolution file time stamp, so commands like `cp -p' that explicitly set a file's time stamp must discard its subsecond part. If a file is created by such a command, you should list it as a prerequisite of `.LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME' so that `make' does not mistakenly conclude that the file is out of date. For example: .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME: dst dst: src cp -p src dst Since `cp -p' discards the subsecond part of `src''s time stamp, `dst' is typically slightly older than `src' even when it is up to date. The `.LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME' line causes `make' to consider `dst' to be up to date if its time stamp is at the start of the same second that `src''s time stamp is in. Maybe this helps? Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel