On 2024-06-07 19:26, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > Bruno Haible wrote: >> [I'm writing to automake@gnu.org because bug-autom...@gnu.org appears >> to be equivalent to /dev/null: no echo in >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2024-06/threads.html >> nor in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=automake, >> even after several hours.] >> >> In configure scripts generated by Autoconf 2.72 and Automake 1.16.90, >> one of the early tests checking filesystem timestamp resolution... >> takes 7 seconds! Seen e.g. on NetBSD 10.0. [...] > The problem with the proposed patch is that it tries to read a > filesystem name instead of testing for the feature. This would not be > portable to new systems that use a different name for their FAT > filesystem driver.
Maybe this is a silly question, but, is there a reason why this test needs to be performed in every single package that uses Automake? I was under the impression that the purpose of this test was merely to speed up running Automake's own test suite. Cheers, Nick
