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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: clock skew corrupts kernel builds?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:13:19
Message-Id: loom.20041208T160955-296@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] clock skew corrupts kernel builds? by Bastian Balthazar Bux
1 Bastian Balthazar Bux <BastianBalthazarBux <at> pnpitalia.it> writes:
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3 > >I adjusted my time with the 'date' command. The system then complained
4 > >about the time zone and told me to fix is using 'zic'
5 .org mailing list
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8 > As Far As I Know (not so far)
9 > After the first time you compile some source, if you compile again make
10 > try to avoid recompile unchanged source.
11 > The check is done on the dates of source code and the one of object
12 > built. Change the clock of the computer from the first compile to the
13 > second one may make it confused and so it can avoid to recompile source
14 > that is changed.
15 > About the kernel compile, I suggesto to copy your .config somewhere
16 > safe, run "make mrproper" or "make clean" (first preferred), copy
17 > .config again in /usr/src/linux and recompile.
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20 OK, this was right on the money. I got distracted, delayed, and spent
21 hours reading kernel sources before I found my problem on a LMLBT4x
22 video grabber card. I corrected the time during a open 'make menuconfig'
23 session.....
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25 Got things working nicely now.
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27 James
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