Fix inequality in "stale mtime" log messages #11281
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What does this PR try to resolve?
If
CARGO_LOG=cargo::core::compiler::fingerprint=info
is set, cargo will print log messages that are useful for finding out why something is being recompiled. E.g. if the modification time (mtime) of a source file is newer than the cached build result, it will print something like:However, the
!=
in the log message is misleading, as equality is not the criterion that's actually used to determine when to rebuild.This PR fixes that by changing
!=
to<
, corresponding to the actual criterion.How should we test and review this PR?
Look at the criterion I linked and trace
stale_mtime
in the log message back topath_mtime
in said criterion to see why it has to be<
.