Jacob Bachmeyer wrote: > under what conditions can "checking that > generated files are newer than configure" actually fail?
I mentioned two such conditions in [1]:
- Skewed clocks. (I see this regularly on VMs that have 1 or 2 hours
of skew.)
- If the configure file was created less than 1 second ago and the
file system time resolution is 1 second. (This happens frequently
in the Automake test suite.)
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-06/msg00054.html
