[PATCH] Automake-git testsuite failures: aclocal9, acloca10, nodef

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi Ralf,

as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I get a few FAILs when runnig 'make check'
on the current Automake-git.  Looking into the three tests I concluded that
it must be a timing problem.  Running ten times just these three tests I
got:

aclocal9: 6 FAIL + 4 PASS
acloca10: 10 FAIL
nodef: 8 FAIL + 2 PASS

after applying the attached patch I got 10 PASSes for each test.

The patch introduces a delay between successive invocations of aclocal.
Probably using 'aclocal -f' would have the same effect, but a delay --
undesirable as it might be -- seems to be closer to a typical use case.

BTW: There may be additional test suffering from the same problem.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>

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