Re: git and mtime

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Nov 20, 2008, 13:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20081120135956.GA29789@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081120133546.GA6023@codelibre.net>

also sprach Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> [2008.11.20.1435 +0100]:

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> By end user, I mean person downloading and building the sources.
> 
> They are optional build depdendencies.  They are provided pre-built,
> and won't be rebuilt unless they get outdated.  In the release
> tarball, the timestamps are correct, ensuring this never happens.
> When checking out with git, the timestamps are incorrect, and it
> attempts to rebuild something that's *already built*.

I know you will hate me, but I think the solution here is to fix the toolchain and make those build dependencies required.

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