* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:59:07PM CEST: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST: > > --- a/tests/subdir5.test > > +++ b/tests/subdir5.test > > > @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ $MAKE > > # does it in the other way: it updates confiles.m4 (which is m4_included > > # by configure.in there) after Makefile.am. > > > > +# Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status. > > +$sleep > > This hunk makes perfect sense to me, and is fine for maint,
Never mind; this hunk has the same problem as the other two. Cf. also the _long_ comment above it explaining why it should be sufficient. This comment would need fixing if it were wrong. > but the other two do not make sense to me yet: > configure ensures that config.status is newer than itself, > thus configure must be older than any .m4 files that are > edited afterwards even without $sleep. Cheers, Ralf