Re: 1.16.90 regression: configure now takes 7 seconds to start

2024-06-07 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Jacob, AFAIU, the 4x sleep 0.1 are to determine whether am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution should be set to 0.1 or to 1. OK, so be it. But the 6x sleep 1 are to determine whether am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution should be set to 1 or 2. 2 is known to be the ca

Re: 1.16.90 regression: configure now takes 7 seconds to start

2024-06-07 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 6/8/24 08:50, Bruno Haible wrote: You can't achieve portability by using a highly unportable program like 'stat'. That's why my patch only uses 'df' and 'mount'. You can test if it's available, and fall back if not. I don't care much about the 0.4 seconds spent on determining sub-sec

system info in test-suite.log

2024-06-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, The 1.16.90 NEWS file states: - test-suite.log now contains basic system information, and the console message about bug reporting on failure has a bit more detail. (bug#68746) 1) This system information is the naked output of some OS commands: (uname -a | awk '{$$2=""; p

Re: 1.16.90 regression: configure now takes 7 seconds to start

2024-06-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jacob, > > AFAIU, the 4x sleep 0.1 are to determine whether > > am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution should be set to 0.1 or to 1. > > OK, so be it. > > > > But the 6x sleep 1 are to determine whether > > am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution should be set to 1 or 2. > > 2 is known to be the c

First draft of application to Sovereign Tech Fund

2024-06-07 Thread Christoph GrĂ¼ninger
Hello Autoconf, hello Automake! As promised yesterday, I wrote a first draft of an application to the German Sovereign Tech Fund for Direct Contributions to both Autoconf & Automake. Please review and comment. I would like to submit this next week. Who needs to approve these (and any later ver

Re: 1.16.90 regression: configure now takes 7 seconds to start

2024-06-07 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
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.] I

no easy way to generate a test-suite.log without skipped tests

2024-06-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, In my projects that use Automake and the "parallel" test driver, often I have 1000 unit tests, of which 100-150 are skipped and 1-5 fail. When analyzing the "make check" results, the generated test-suite.log is more handy to use than the 1000 different .log files. However, before I get an over

Re: Bug Resilience Program of German Sovereign Tech Fund

2024-06-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 6/6/24 15:20, Christoph GrĂ¼ninger wrote: I think we should apply for the Bug Resilience Program with their Direct Contributions option. This is not funding, rather a company is hired to do the mentioned things. It is easier to apply for and if granted should improve the situation. Would it b