Alcatel-Lucent nmake Product Builder
Timestamp Inconsistencies on Fast Machines
There is a possibility of time stamp inconsistencies on fast machines.
The handling of time stamps between multiple invocations of nmake
can collide when run in a script. For example, suppose a Makefile
creates an archive b.a, with member b.c.
Then, the following script can intermittently break the engine code:
nmake
touch b.c
nmake
What happens is that the 2nd invocation may fail to rebuild anything
or may rebuild b.o but fail to update b.a.
To work around this, the shell script should have at least a one second
time interval between invocations of nmake:
nmake
touch b.c
sleep 1
nmake
Last Update: Monday,28-Feb-2011 15:31:18 EST