Re: apparent slowdown from 3.75 to 3.79.1

2001-04-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
The bug you're experiencing WRT modification time in the future is almost certainly due to Microsoft's long-known bug in their libraries, which mishandles DST in any year where Apr 1 is a Sunday. This bug has been reported in the press since at least Jan 1999, but still exists today even in W2K.

apparent slowdown from 3.75 to 3.79.1

2001-04-02 Thread Craig A. Handler
Hello. I am suddenly running into difficulty with the modification-in- the-future check in 3.75 of Gnu make. I am running on Windows NT 4.0, and writing to network disk. I am not getting the same error on our Unix boxes. I don't actually expect support on the old version, so I downloaded 3.79