From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: alisa.bezkresta@mail.ru
Cc: 9354@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9354: wishing to build, ./configure runs eternally
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:29:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7liuiacjl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QwBXr-0001l7-00.alisa-bezkresta-mail-ru@f260.mail.ru> ("Алиса Безкреста"'s message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:22:55 +0400")
> So I had my system date set for some months before real time. Very funny.
>
> And then, when I wanted to build emacs, there goes configure checking
> round and round.
I simulated this by extracting the emacs 23.3a tarfile and then doing:
find . -exec touch -t 201111111111 '{}' '+'
to set the dates of all the files a few months in the future.
Then what should be the end of ./configure prints:
creating src/epaths.h
make: Warning: File `/path/to/emacs-23.3/configure' has modification
time 6.8e+06 s in the future
./config.status --recheck
and round and round it goes.
The loop is caused by configure invoking `make epaths-force'
and the rule in Makefile that says:
config.status: ${srcdir}/configure ${srcdir}/lisp/version.el
./config.status --recheck
Nothing ever changes the timestamp of configure, so it always remains
newer than config.status.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 21:29 bug#9354: wishing to build, ./configure runs eternally Алиса Безкреста
2011-08-24 4:23 ` Glenn Morris
2011-08-24 11:22 ` bug#9354: Re[2]: " Алиса Безкреста
2011-08-24 18:29 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2011-08-30 4:50 ` Paul Eggert
2011-08-30 7:18 ` Glenn Morris
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