> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:06:11 +0100 (GMT+01:00) > From: Eldred HABERT <m...@eldred.fr> > > Hello! > > I am having an issue that some versions of Make never stop on a Make file I > made, but only on Windows. > https://github.com/ISSOtm/gb-starter-kit/issues/1#issuecomment-1793775226 > I have traced the issue to hi-res timestamps being disabled for some builds > of Make; apparently, those that use `config.h.W32`, which explicitly disables > hi-res timestamps. The MSYS2 port was reported to work reliably. > > Thus: I'd like to request that hi-res timestamps be enabled in that config > file.
It is not that simple. GNU Make uses 'stat' to retrieve the time stamp of files, and the Windows implementation of 'stat' reports times without hi-res data. So to define FILE_TIMESTAMP_HI_RES in the native Windows port of GNU Make, someone will need to produce a reimplementation of 'stat' that returns higher-resolution time stamp. Patches are welcome. (The MSYS2 port uses the Cygwin runtime library, whose 'stat' does provide hi-res times. But the native port cannot use the Cygwin runtime, it must use the native runtime or the Win32 APIs.)
