bug#8621: build-aux/compile: avoid race condition failure

2011-05-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Is there any reason not to make the compile script accommodate (in a race-free manner) situations like the one described in http://debbugs.gnu.org/8616 ?

Re: bug#8616: conflict between build-aux/compile script and coreutils Makefiles

2011-05-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Thursday 05 May 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > Green, Paul wrote: > > Gentle Coreutils Developers, > > [HUGE CUT] > > To the automake folks, is there any reason not to do that? > Hi Jim. I'm in a middle of something else right now, so I'm probably not going to look into this soonish. Could you