improve display of whether sleep supports fractional seconds

2024-07-01 Thread Bruno Haible
This configure output checking whether sleep supports fractional seconds... true is inconsistent with the rest of the GNU Build System. Namely, in configure output, results are "yes"/"no", not "true"/"false". The attached patch makes automake consistent with the rest. Verified to pass "make c

improve display of filesystem timestamp resolution

2024-07-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, This configure output checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether sleep supports fractional seconds... true checking filesystem timestamp resolution... 2 checking whether build environment is sane... yes ... bugs me, like it would bug every physici

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-07-01 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024, at 4:28 PM, Karl Berry wrote: ... > introspection/%.h: introspection/%.c > $() ... > As an aside, I'm curious as to why the $() is used. It seems > a mysterious way to do nothing. Do you know? I don't know why someone chose to do it this way, but I do know that GCC's Ma

Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16.92 released

2024-07-01 Thread Frederic Berat
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 10:28 PM Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Frederic, > > Hello, > NetworkManager: > Use of uninitialized value $var in string eq at > /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Variable.pm line 754, line > 1169. > > From the Makefile.am you sent me separately (attached here for