Bug#489730: iceape: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (due to subsecond timestamp resolution)

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Tue Jul 8 18:01:39 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:51:16PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hopefully found the real cause of failure on GNU/kFreeBSD.
>
> It is due to subsecond time resolution available in underlying
> file system. The output of gcc does have subsecond timestamps cleared,
> but output of touch preserves them.
>
> This timestamp problem have been exposed by different VISIBILITY_FLAGS
> in "make all" and "make install" calls.
>
> It can be fixed by patch bellow.
>
> It would also be nice if you can ask upstream
> to include this change to config/rules.mk.

This will probably never happen, because builds are likely to take
way more than than they currently do.

Anyways, since I'm going to remove the (unneeded nowadays) visibility
flags hack...

Mike





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