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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-08-31 10:43:51 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> That was why I posted the workaround for this problem of using touch
> to set all of the timestamps to the current time.  I am not sure you
> noticed it.

I noticed it, but didn't like this workaround because of that,
especially on a handheld:

> If there are a small enough number of files then it is statistically
> likely that this will succeed.  However I acknowledge that if there
> are a large number of files that it might take so long to complete
> that it would cross a clock tick boundary and cross from one into the
> next.

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