On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Vivek Katakam <[email protected]> wrote: > While compiling one of the sources, make is going in recursive cycles > with the message: > Clock skew detected.
This almost always is because you're building on a file system mounted from another machine whose clock is behind (showing an earlier time) than the local machine. THE ONLY FIX IS TO SYNCHRONIZE THE CLOCKS. > Some of the sources are backdated. It's okay for source files to have timestamps in the past. The problem comes when a newly created file has a timestamp before a file that already exists. > Is there any option in make to avoid this error. The *whole point* of make is that it compares timestamps to determine which targets need to be updated. How could make work around a system that lies? Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
