On 2020-04-13, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I just checked, and GNU Make uses high-resolution file timestamps when
> available, and considers a file to be up-to-date if it has exactly the same
> timestamp as its dependency. I suspect that this is because Makefile rules
> like
> this:
>
> a: b
> cp -
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:06:14AM +0100, Harald van Dijk via Bug reports for
autoconf wrote:
> 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
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,
