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Re: clock skew detected in archive member
On 2016-07-19 15:44, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
Hello,
I am building a project in Cygwin using a GCC/binutils cross-compiler hosted on Windows.
I.e., make and other utilities are from Cygwin;
gcc, ld, ar, etc. are from the cross-compiler toolchain which was compiled natively
for Windows.
I consistently see
make[1]: Warning: File 'libmylib.a(myfile.o)' has modification time 3516 s in the future
make[1]: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.
(The exact time varies somewhat).
The build is indeed incomplete.
I am using the lib(member): form of rule in the Makefile, so
make uses the modification time of the member in the archive
to see if it needs updating.
As the time is close to an hour and since I am one hour east of GMT,
this might be related to a time-zone problem.
If anyone has run across this problem and has some hints for me,
I would be most grateful.
Best Regards
Konrad Schwarz
Konrad-
Here is my experience operating in a mixed environment. There seem to be
several routes to getting timestamps on files ... Windows (via Windows explorer)
can produce different results than Cygwin, even on the same NTFS volume. Now if
you were able to roll the clock back a couple months to Winter time, you might
have fewer problems. Not to mention, if you're using remotely mounted drives,
there can be some jitter too that causes Makefile problems -- these problems
have been around for almost three decades on pure *nix systems, no Windows OS.
Now add in archives (whose time should be right because it is in UTC), but the
file itself (which was copied into the archive) might have the wrong time
(stupid TZ issues from the file's metadata in the filesystem, not the archive
which merely copies the filesystem metadata).
The easiest way to see this problem is with files that are "self-timestamped",
such as JPEG EXIF metadata in a photo file taken in December (Northern
Hemisphere winter) and viewed in Summer time (or vice versa). You'll see hour
differences, which of course are not true.
The solution? Essentially, (1) you need to build on local filesystems (applies
to UNIX and Windows OS), (2) you need to have a single route for determining
timestamp/TZ data on files (probably means you can't mix Windows and Cygwin),
(3) building the files with "TZ=UTC0" (or equivalent) should minimize timezone
and summer time issues.
I'm sure there is a more detailed explanation in the inner guts of cygwin and
Windows OS, but I've lost too much time over the years trying to make sense out
of it and reconciling what has been written on the web that, in fact, does not
describe what is happening on my machines. The timezones/summer time has been
broken on DOS and Windows since Day 1, and they broke it again, and they broke
it again.
-FF
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