Work around a design defect in Ninja whereby a zero mtime is used to denote missing files (we happen to produce files that have a zero mtime and yet really do exist.) --- ninja-1.5.3/src/disk_interface.cc 2014-11-24 18:37:47.000000000 +0100 +++ ninja-1.5.3/src/disk_interface.cc 2015-07-18 23:20:38.572290139 +0200 @@ -194,6 +194,12 @@ TimeStamp RealDiskInterface::Stat(const } return -1; } + + if (st.st_mtime == 0) + // All the code assumes that mtime == 0 means "file missing". Here we + // know the file is not missing, so tweak the mtime. + st.st_mtime = 1; + return st.st_mtime; #endif }