Re: Automake 1.8 testsuite race condition

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The lex5 test can fail spuriously on fast machines, because the two
> modifications to Makefile.am can occur in the same second, and the
> filesystem may not have a finer precision for time stamps.
>
> Andreas.
>
> 2004-01-21  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>
>
>         * tests/lex5.test: Sleep for one second before modifying
>         Makefile.am again.
>
> --- tests/lex5.test     2004/01/16 23:51:50     1.1
> +++ tests/lex5.test     2004/01/16 23:53:09
> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ test -f foo/foo.o
>  
>  # Now, adds another lexer to test ylwrap.
>  
> +sleep 1

Please use $sleep, to cope with the weird granularity of timestamps on 
Windows '9x. See tests/defs for the definition of the sleep variable.

>  cd ..
>  cp foo/foo.l foo/foo2.l
>  cat >> Makefile.am << 'END'

Bye, Rich =]

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