Re: use of make in AM_SANITY_CHECK (was: improved timestamp resolution test)

2024-06-16 Thread Karl Berry
make(1) in AM_SANITY_CHECK seems to be a logic error, since the user may want to build with a different $MAKE, You're right. Crap. It never ends. In practice it probably doesn't matter, though. Although in theory one can imagine that "make" succeeds while $MAKE fails, resulting in a fals

Re: use of make in AM_SANITY_CHECK (was: improved timestamp resolution test)

2024-06-15 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Karl Berry wrote: Jacob, [*sigh*] You said it. About this whole thing. I rather wish this bright idea had never come to pass. It has delayed the release by months. Oh well. Still, could we use make(1) for *all* of the testing and not use `ls -t` I guess it is technically possible, b