modification time warning with R CMD check
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, David Kane <David Kane wrote:
I often get warnings like the following when running R CMD check [...] * checking for code/documentation mismatches ... OK * checking tests ... make: *** Warning: File `Makevars' has modification time in the future (2001-11-13 12:54:37.381546042 > 2001-11-13 12:54:37.314975985) [...] I am ready to believe that this is not a bug (i.e., that the timing on my various machines and file systems is such that I am creating a Makevars with a modification that is 0.07 seconds in the future from the perspective of the machine that Perl is running on). However, I would think that a warning would only be justified if this were far enough (1 second? 5 seconds?) in the future to be "interesting".
I get this too from time to time. It's actually hard to tell what is 'uninteresting' in general. For example, Linux can create a file in about 50 microseconds on suitable hardware, so a 0.07s lag is easily enough that files might in principle have been created in the wrong order, messing up the make algorithm. Fortunately in building R this sort of lag doesn't matter. Unfortunately I don't know how to turn the warning off. -thomas -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._