bug#8365: 3 of 657 tests failed

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:47:20PM CEST:
> > --- a/tests/aclocal6.test
> > +++ b/tests/aclocal6.test
> 
> > @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ cd build
> >  ../configure
> >  $MAKE
> >  
> > +# Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status.
> > +$sleep
> >  # Update an aclocal.m4 dependency, then make sure all Makefiles
> >  # are updated, even from a sub-directory.
> >  echo 'AC_DEFUN([SOME_DEFS], [MORE_DEFS])' > ../m4/somedefs.m4
> 
> > --- 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,
> but the other two do not make sense to me yet:
> configure ensures that config.status is newer than itself,
>
Yes, I have taken that into account.

> thus configure must be older than any .m4 files that are
> edited afterwards even without $sleep.
>
Yes; problem is, config.status won't (necessarily) be.  And this is
what's causing the failure here.

> I've read the longish explanation of yours superficially;
> if you think it addresses my concern please say so and I will
> scrutinize it.
>
I think it does; maybe reformulating it for subdir5.test would
make it clearer (ans surely shorter); I might do that if you are
interested (not right now, but soonish enough).

> >  sed <configure.in >configure.tmp -e '/^AC_OUTPUT$/i\
> >  AC_CONFIG_FILES([maude/Makefile])\
> >  m4_include([confile.m4])\
> > @@ -94,6 +96,8 @@ test -f maude/Makefile
> >  # Then we add a new directory by modifying a file included (through
> >  # `m4_include') by configure.in.
> >  mkdir maude2
> > +# Modified configure dependencies must be newer than config.status.
> > +$sleep
> >  cat >> confile.m4 << 'END'
> >  AC_CONFIG_FILES([maude2/Makefile])
> >  AC_SUBST([GREPME])
> 
> Thanks for looking into this,
> Ralf
> 

Thanks,
  Stefano