Re: [PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.

2020-05-09 Thread Harald van Dijk
by the removal of the function from Automake? Cheers, Harald van Dijk

Re: [PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.

2020-04-14 Thread Harald van Dijk via Bug reports for autoconf
On 14/04/2020 04:34, Paul Eggert wrote: On 4/13/20 4:21 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: For better or worse, FAT is the most universally accepted file system, and for that reason it is widely used. It does not even support second precision timestamps. Let's not worry much about that. In practice

Re: [PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.

2020-04-13 Thread Harald van Dijk
sub-second precision on modern machines. For better or worse, FAT is the most universally accepted file system, and for that reason it is widely used. It does not even support second precision timestamps. Cheers, Harald van Dijk

Re: [PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.

2020-04-11 Thread Harald van Dijk
On 11/04/2020 21:07, Paul Eggert wrote: On 4/11/20 12:28 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: The up_to_date_p function uses mtime, which returns timestamps with second precision. Even if it were capable of returning higher precision timestamps, the file system might not support it. These days file

[PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.

2020-04-11 Thread Harald van Dijk
The up_to_date_p function uses mtime, which returns timestamps with second precision. Even if it were capable of returning higher precision timestamps, the file system might not support it. With second precision timestamps, when two timestamps are equal, we do not know which is newer and need to

Feature request: turn off, save and restore AC_LANG_WERROR

2011-08-08 Thread Harald van Dijk
Hi, I'd like to be able to turn on AC_LANG_WERROR for a configure test, and turn it back off after the test. I found I can do this using the ac_c_werror_flag variable, as used in the default check for the -g compiler flag, but as far as I can tell this is an internal flag and I should not be