Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/4/2006 11:11 PM: > Quoting automake/configure.ac: > # The amount we should wait after modifying files depends on the platform. > # On Windows '95, '98 and ME, files modifications have 2-seconds > # granularity and can

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-12-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Even Linux > supports FAT, although I doubt anyone is foolhardy enough to develop on > FAT when there are so many better filesystems to choose from. But you > need at least 'sleep 2' to guarantee distinct timestamps on FAT. I don't think this is really a

Re: calling autoreconf and minimizing rebuilds

2006-12-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paul Eggert wrote on Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:21:42PM CET: > > In the mean time, sleeping for 1 second should suffice. Thank you. I applied the patch below, assuming we'll hear about the significance of failures on bug-autoconf. > The goal here is to avoid a tradition of tests that sleep. Sle

Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

2006-12-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Ralf and all, [sorry for the delay, I forgot this in my "postponed" folder] On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:35:54PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:18PM CET: > > [...] So it seems that distcheck would > > catch more bugs if `_build' were not a