Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023, at 7:33 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
Zack Weinberg wrote:
Would it help if we added a command line option to autom4te that made
it report whether it thought it could use high resolution timestamps?
Versions of autom4te that didn't recognize this option should be
conservatively assumed not to support them.
Why not just add that information to the --version message? Add a
"(HiRes)" tag somewhere if Time::HiRes is available?
Either way is no problem from my end, but it would be more work
for automake (parsing --version output, instead of just checking the
exit status of autom4te --assert-high-resolution-timestamp-support)
Karl, do you have a preference here? I can make whatever you decide
on happen, in the next couple of days.
There would not need to be much parsing, just "automake --version | grep
HiRes" in that case, or "case `automake --version` in *HiRes*) ...;;
easc" to avoid running grep if you want.
-- Jacob
