search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.26.1/lib/File/Copy.pm suggests perlmonks.org though the search.cpan.org/~shay/ email address might also be good,
Good luck, -- Raul On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure who to report this to... > > Perl's File::Copy::move has a bug or limitation that can cause > problems with autoconf, which uses File::Copy. > > File::Copy::move tries to rename() the file, but necessarily falls > back to copy and unlink if source and destination are on different > file systems. It also tries to copy the access and modification > timestamps, but uses utime(), which only has full second resolution. > Modern POSIX filesystems have nanosecond resolution timestamps. > Effectively, the timestamp of the moved file is truncated down to > a second, which means it travels back in time. This can mean that > dependencies are out of date and make wants to rebuild files... > > I guess File::Copy should use utimensat() or futimens(). > > > (This is the ultimate source of sporadic, quasi-random build failures > I see during package bulk builds.) > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] >
