Re: Make timestame error

[Lack Mr G M]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (David Bishop) writes:
|> 
|> I'm running GNU Make version 3.76.1, and using one machine to edit files
|> on, and another to compile on.  I'm getting the following error from
|> "make"
|> 
|> > make: *** Warning: File `<path_to_file_on_server_above' has modification 
|> > time in the future
|> > make: *** Warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.
|> 
|> Both machines in question are variations on the SUN Ultra Sparc.  Both
|> clock boards (the mother board in one case) have been replaced.

   It's not the hardware clock rate that is a problem.  The time on the
two systems (as given by the date command) differs.  Since you are using
NFS, when you write a file the timestamp is written by the server, If
the server's clock is ahead of the clients then when the client comes to
read the mtime field it finds it is in the future. 

   Set the time to be the same on both systems.

|> Any ideas?  Right now we are having the user edit on the remote machine,
|> but he isn't getting the response he'd like from it across the net.

   Presumably because he is using a GUI editor?  An xterm with a
screen-based editor woudl be Ok.


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