Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:38:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What about an enhancement that allows .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME: with no
targets to apply to all files, essentially duplicating what the old
--disable-nsec-timestamps option did?
Something like that might be useful, but I see some gotchas.
With the patch I sent, if you declare a file to have a low-resolution
time stamp, but 'make' finds that the file in fact has a
high-resolution time stamp, it prints a warning. If you add the
further enhancement that you describe, that warning should be disabled
if the user specified .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME: with no targets. (Or
perhaps the warning should just be removed as a bad idea all around.)
Also, I expect that some people might object to the need to modify
their makefiles. Maybe the "global .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME" behavior
should be enabled by a command-line option, or by an environment
variable?
