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

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:07:44AM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
>>> Please, could you consider adding the sleep - it fixes the cause - rebuild
>>> of some files during "make install".
>>
>> Weren't you saying the cause was the different variables values for make and
>> make install ?
>
> Currently, my understanding of issue is as follows:
>
> Files ".done", which only signals "directory is created", have subsecond  
> timestamp. Files generated by xpidl are created in corresponding  
> directory, they depends on .done files, they have subsecond timestamp  
> cleared. The make in "make all" does know, that they have been generated
> after .done files - make spawned appropriate commands.

Why can that even happen ? What makes a difference between touch
creating a file and xpidl creating a file ? Why doesn't the latter have
a timestamp greater than the former ? *This* sounds fishy. Having to
wait there would still be a work around, not resolving the real problem
at hand.

Mike