Dear folks, Today I found an interesting problem. I have a Debian i386 Linux. I've issued the following commands: $ touch --date=1970-01-01 lgconfig.h $ make -n lgconfig.h Make has complained: make: *** Warning: File `lgconfig.h' has modification time in the future (1970-01-01 00:00:00 > 2000-09-19 14:49:02) make: `lgconfig.h' is up to date. make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. My timezone is CET DST (GMT+0200). Touch set the mtime to -3600==4294963696==0xfffff1f0. However make interprets this as a future date. Touch thinks unix time signed, make regards it as unsigned. Yes, I understand the mechanism and this is not a complaint. I've just found funny the warning from the make. :-) However 'touch' might issue a warning, that times in the 0x80000000-0xffffffff range are ambigous. Generally time handling looks a bit inconsistent 'ls' and 'find' also regards time 0xfffff1f0 being in the past. Is 'make' the only program thinking it in the future? Regards Gabor ---- Versions: $ touch --version touch (GNU fileutils) 4.0l ... $ make --version GNU Make version 3.79.1, ... _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
