bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:59:07PM CEST:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST:
> > --- a/tests/subdir5.test
> > +++ b/tests/subdir5.test
> 
> > @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ $MAKE
> >  # does it in the other way: it updates confiles.m4 (which is m4_included
> >  # by configure.in there) after Makefile.am.
> >  
> > +# Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status.
> > +$sleep
> 
> This hunk makes perfect sense to me, and is fine for maint,

Never mind; this hunk has the same problem as the other two.
Cf. also the _long_ comment above it explaining why it should
be sufficient.

This comment would need fixing if it were wrong.

> but the other two do not make sense to me yet:
> configure ensures that config.status is newer than itself,
> thus configure must be older than any .m4 files that are
> edited afterwards even without $sleep.

Cheers,
Ralf