Hello, Derek!
> > Some unices (including GNU/Linux) are not very precise with respect to the
> > timestamps. It's likely that parse.c and the new parse.y are created in
> > the same second, so parse.c will appear to be up-to-date. Adding "sleep
> > 3" (I have no idea what would be a minimal safe time) before the new
>
> CVS uses a single second sleep to guarentee timestamps change cross-platform
> and we don't see bug reports about it. Only ocassionaly complaints that
> scripts which invoke CVS many times take too long.
Thanks! Then "touch parse.y" can be moved below "configure", since the
later is guaranteed to take at least 1 second (see AM_SANITY_CHECK).
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
