[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#505088: Bug#505088: alsa-lib: fails to build twice in a row

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:40:33AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> My best shot is nanosecond timestamps; you would be using ext3? That
> has timestamps to the precision of a second. I use XFS, which has
> timestamps to the precision of a nanosecond. So, while aclocal.m4 is
> newer than configure.in (which, if detected by make, triggers the
> whole autoconf/automake avalanche), in your setup this is not detected
> because they were modified in the same second, so make does not see
> aclocal.m4 as newer, but as same age, thus no running autoconf.
> 
> Please do an "ls --full-time configure.in aclocal.m" in your build
> directory; I would expect you would always get all zeroes after the
> decimal point in seconds. I get a value afterwards; nanosecond
> timestamps vs second timestamps.

Would touching configure before configuring help, so it's newer than
aclocal.m4?

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