Re: generated Makefile wants to run missing after configure (broken --disable-dependency-tracking?)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:58:42PM CEST:
> On 2008-08-27 19:17:19 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> > What exactly is it that makes you have messed up time stamps?
> 
> I think that utime(2) doesn't work. So, when a file is extracted from
> the tarball, it gets the current time.
> 
> BTW, the "touch" utility is provided by BusyBox v0.60.4 and is very
> limited. It isn't even affected by the lack of working utime(2).

Other than the workarounds already mentioned in this thread, I don't see
what Automake can do about it.  Really it's the system that should be
fixed.

Cheers,
Ralf