Clock skew detected

[gk]

Paul D. Smith directed me to this list with my question, and his reply below.
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I am getting this error message concerning a file, 'XMakefile.mko', which 
is auto-generated by my makefile:

make[1]: Warning: File 
`/home/greg/xmake/test/XMakeSubProject1/XMakeSubProject2/XMakefile.mko' has 
modification time 1.1 s in the future
make[1]: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.

After deleting the file, the same message happens again.

I am running on the latest Cygwin with Windows 2000:
* Red Hat Cygwin: cygwin1.dll version 1.3.22
        + GNU bash, version 2.05.8(1)-release

I compiled Gnu Make 3.80 from source, with patches applied for bugs 1516 
and 1517. This version of Gnu Make has worked fine for months on my linux 
box; never saw this error before.

------------- Paul's reply:
From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
Reply-To: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
Organization: GNU's Not Unix!
Sender: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
X-Envelope-To: address@hidden
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%% gk <address@hidden> writes:

  g> All files are on FAT32 filesystem; no networking involved.

I thought there was a workaround in the code for this.  Weird.

  g> Some errors are greater that 1 second but I haven't seen anything
  g> beyond that.  Unless you believe otherwise, I'll assume it is a
  g> filesystem problem.  Would NTFS work correctly?

I know hardly anything about Windows; you'll have to ask on the
address@hidden lists.


- Greg Keraunen
http://www.xmake.org