Saturday, July 06, 2024

Re: (boring) why is KEEPKERNELS unset and obj gets cleaned?

what you suggest sounds like a really bad idea

Time is an imperfect construct, with your suggestion you have to have 100% confidence that system local time is always perfect. I've been doing this a long time and can recall many instances when an issue arose because time was off.

On July 6, 2024 7:01:27 AM MDT, Anon Loli <anonloli@autistici.org> wrote:
SNIP
>(my last email on this thread, about datetime "version check" is needed to
>understand the meaning of this)
>or make(1) can handle this when say building /usr/src, it can check datetime of
>the source files (.c, .h), and then the datetime of object files (.o).. now
>there might be a confusion between CVS repository datetime and local host
>time, so perhaps convert everything to UTC unixtime, and perhaps CVS should
>handle the differential between CVS and local datetime (if needed at all)
>
>And voila, that should handle object files so that they can't get outdated.
>

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