Ninja infinite loop after meson v0.37.0

[Mads Berre]

Hi, 

I have updated from meson v0.36.0 to v0.37.0, this result in what looks like an "infinite loop" ending with: ninja: error: manifest 'build.ninja' still dirty after 100 tries

I have another project that uses another compiler that works just fine.  

the project with problems has the following properties:

gcc 4.9.2

meson 0.37.0 

ninja 1.7.1 

OS: debian jessie 

build machine: x86_64

hope that anyone can help me!

Best regards

Mads

[Igor Gnatenko]

Interesting, can you share reproducer? (tarball or link to repository)

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[Mads Berre]

Hi Igor, 

Unfortunately i am not able to share anything that can reproduce the issue. 

But i have found out how to resolve it and perhaps an explanation. 

to diagnose i used the ninja -d explain option, that told me: 

ninja explain: output build.ninja older than most recent input ../src/meson.build (1482235161 vs 1482744227) 

I then figured that it must be a time stamp issue, so i touched the files that it reported and everything works. 

Strange I think!

Mads