Re: make handling of prerequisites that interlock?

[Ben Pfaff]

Ted Stern <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>> To reliably demonstrate a problem that I have seen elsewhere in
>> other circumstances.
>>
>>> I'd also recommend trying a different filesystem.  Reiserfs, for
>>> example, handles small files better.
>>
>> Why do you think this issue is related to small file handling?
>>
>
> If you are touching files within the filesystem's limits of creating
> small files with nearly identical timestamps, you're going to see
> funny dependency problems.

I am completely aware that the resolution of timestamps is a
problem.  I did not know that the size of files had anything to
do with it--can you explain further?

Did you read the `-d' output?  Make is aware that a target's
prerequisites are newer than the target, and it says so, but then
it decides not to remake the target anyhow.  This does not make
sense to me--do you have an explanation?
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Ben Pfaff 
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