[redirecting to bug-autoconf] On 05/07/2011 07:14 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix spurious failure of extradep.test on FreeBSD > > * tests/extradep.test: When using `ls -t' to determine whether a > file has been updated, make sure to use as reference a file whose > timestamp is expected to be *strictly* older that that of the file > being checked. This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do > not sort files with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when > using the `-t' option.
Ouch. That's a POSIX violation. We should document it as a portability pitfall in the autoconf manual. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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