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Automake 1.8 testsuite race condition


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Automake 1.8 testsuite race condition
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:37:39 +0100
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The lex5 test can fail spuriously on fast machines, because the two
modifications to Makefile.am can occur in the same second, and the
filesystem may not have a finer precision for time stamps.

Andreas.

2004-01-21  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>

        * tests/lex5.test: Sleep for one second before modifying
        Makefile.am again.

--- tests/lex5.test     2004/01/16 23:51:50     1.1
+++ tests/lex5.test     2004/01/16 23:53:09
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ test -f foo/foo.o
 
 # Now, adds another lexer to test ylwrap.
 
+sleep 1
 cd ..
 cp foo/foo.l foo/foo2.l
 cat >> Makefile.am << 'END'

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