[dropping automake-patches] Hi Eric.
On Monday 09 May 2011, Eric Blake wrote: > [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. > Wait, I cannot reproduce it. And by reading the source of FreeBSD ls (/usr/src/bin/ls/ls.c and usr/src/bin/ls/cmp.c) it seems that `ls -t' should indeed sort same-timestamp files alphabetically. Hmm. I'll try to look better into this tomorrow if nobody beats me. Regards, Stefano
