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Re: Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4)

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From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
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Subject	Re: Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4)
Date	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:17:27 +0100
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Ripunjay Tripathi <ripunjay.tripathi@gmail.com> writes:

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> CC      arch/x86/lib/delay.o
>   AS      arch/x86/lib/getuser.o
>   CC      arch/x86/lib/inat.o
>   CC      arch/x86/lib/insn.o
>   CC      arch/x86/lib/memcpy_32.o
>   AS      arch/x86/lib/putuser.o
>   AS      arch/x86/lib/semaphore_32.o
>   CC      arch/x86/lib/string_32.o
>   CC      arch/x86/lib/strstr_32.o
>   AS      arch/x86/lib/thunk_32.o
>   CC      arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.o
>   AR      arch/x86/lib/lib.a
> make: Warning: File `arch/x86/lib/lib.a' has modification time 11 s in
> the future
>   LD      vmlinux.o
> make[1]: Warning: File `vmlinux.o' has modification time 10 s in the
> future
>   MODPOST vmlinux.o
> make[1]: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be
>   incomplete.

There's another nascent problem here: Make is a program which executes
commands to create 'target' files based on 'source files' by
comparing the file timestamps of possibly existing target files and
source files. This implies that copying archive files around among
systems whose idea of 'the current time' differs (as evidenced above)
may (and sooner or later will) cause to make to not recompile
something which should be recompiled leading to all kinds of weird
errors when trying to use the resulting binary.

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Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4) Ripunjay Tripathi <ripunjay.tripathi@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 01:46 -0700
  Re: Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4) Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-10-18 10:19 +0100
    Re: Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4) Ripunjay Tripathi <ripunjay.tripathi@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 02:54 -0700
      Re: Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4) Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-10-18 10:58 +0100
  Re: Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4) Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-10-18 13:17 +0100
    Re: Kernel Compilation Error (stable build 3.0.4) Ripunjay Tripathi <ripunjay.tripathi@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 18:30 -0700

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