Re: [RFC PATCH]: autom4te: report subsecond timestamp support in --version

2023-12-04 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Zack Weinberg wrote: The Automake test suite wants this in order to know if it’s safe to reduce the length of various delays for the purpose of ensuring files in autom4te.cache are newer than the corresponding source files. * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: Provide (but do not export) a flag $subse

Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

2023-12-04 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Zack Weinberg wrote: On Sun, Dec 3, 2023, at 4:49 PM, Karl Berry wrote: 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. I specifical

Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

2023-12-04 Thread Karl Berry
I thought we were talking about automake's testsuite probing the behavior of *autom4te* Yes, exactly. Sorry for the confusion. $ ./tests/autom4te --version autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.72d.6-49ab3-dirty (subsecond timestamps supported) Looks good to me. Thanks. a third party C

[RFC PATCH]: autom4te: report subsecond timestamp support in --version

2023-12-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
The Automake test suite wants this in order to know if it’s safe to reduce the length of various delays for the purpose of ensuring files in autom4te.cache are newer than the corresponding source files. * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: Provide (but do not export) a flag $subsecond_mtime, indicating

Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

2023-12-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023, at 4:49 PM, Karl Berry wrote: >> 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. > > I specifically want to hear what Kar