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# If the script that is loading Module::Install is from the future,
# then make will detect this and cause it to re-run over and over
# again. This is bad. Rather than taking action to touch it (which
# is unreliable on some platforms and requires write permissions)
# for now we should catch this and refuse to run.
if ( -f $0 ) {
	my $s = (stat($0))[9];

	# If the modification time is only slightly in the future,
	# sleep briefly to remove the problem.
	my $a = $s - time;
	if ( $a > 0 and $a < 5 ) { sleep 5 }

	# Too far in the future, throw an error.
	my $t = time;
	if ( $s > $t ) { die <<"END_DIE" }