From b4eefc79759fcb2c5941a65759d242488af8ed1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:27:49 +0200 Subject: tests: fix spurious failure due to missing sleeps Fixes automake bug#14528. * THANKS: Give credit to that bug's original reporter. * t/remake-configure-dependencies.sh: Add few missing '$sleep' invocations. I thought that the sleeps implicit in the configure invocation were enough, but they were not, actually. Here is what can happen: 1. The config.status script is generated by a configure run. 2. ./config.status and make are run. 3. The 'print-version' script is modified. 4. Since that script is listed in $(CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES), autoconf is re-run. 5. On a fast-enough machine, the three steps 2-4 above, even combined, might have taken less than a second to run; 6. If the filesystem doesn't have a sub-second timestamp resolution, that means the newly-generated configure has the same timestamp of the old config.status; 7. So, config.status is not re-run, and the Makefiles are not updated. 8. Spurious failure! So we really need more explicit sleeps. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- THANKS | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'THANKS') diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index dbcb1ab5b..c5c7c494f 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Christian Cornelssen ccorn@cs.tu-berlin.de Christina Gratorp christina.gratorp@gmail.com Claudio Fontana sick_soul@yahoo.it Clifford Wolf clifford@clifford.at +Colin Watson cjwatson@ubuntu.com Dagobert Michelsen dam@opencsw.org Daiki Ueno ueno@unixuser.org Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org -- cgit v1.2.1