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On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:15:46AM -0600, Steve Peters wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:14:28PM +0100, Abe Timmerman wrote:
> > Yup, this is a local filesystem. Perhaps Merijn can shed some light regarding
> > the type of fs:
> >
> > /home on /dev/vg00/lvol5 delaylog,nodatainlog on Sat Sep 25 03:33:08 2004
> >
> > > I'm assuming that MakeMaker is getting caught out
> > > by timestamps not being what we all expect.
> >
>
> As an aside, I've seen these random failures on OpenBSD as well.
I wonder if this bodge will help.
Nicholas Clark
Change 23935 by nicholas@ship-in-a-bottle on 2005/02/05 15:05:08
Let's (un)do the timewarp, again.
Attempt to bodge round Makefile sometimes being older than Makefile.PL
Pesky filesystems.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t#11 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t#11 (text) ====
@@ -125,6 +125,33 @@
if ($^O eq 'VMS') { $make .= ' all'; }
+ # Sometimes it seems that timestamps can get confused
+
+ # make failed: 256
+ # Makefile out-of-date with respect to Makefile.PL
+ # Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile...
+ # make -f Makefile.old clean > /dev/null 2>&1 || /bin/sh -c true
+ # ../../perl "-I../../../lib" "-I../../../lib" Makefile.PL "PERL_CORE=1"
+ # Checking if your kit is complete...
+ # Looks good
+ # Writing Makefile for ExtTest
+ # ==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
+ # ==> Please rerun the make command. <==
+ # false
+
+ my $timewarp = (-M "Makefile.PL") - (-M "$makefile$makefile_ext");
+ # Convert from days to seconds
+ $timewarp *= 86400;
+ print "# Makefile.PL is $timewarp second(s) older than $makefile$makefile_ext\n";
+ if ($timewarp < 0) {
+ # Sleep for a while to catch up.
+ $timewarp = -$timewarp;
+ $timewarp+=2;
+ $timewarp = 10 if $timewarp > 10;
+ print "# Sleeping for $timewarp second(s) to try to resolve this\n";
+ sleep $timewarp;
+ }
+
print "# make = '$make'\n";
@makeout = `$make`;
if ($?) {
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