Re: make-3.82 testcases fail *sometimes*

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:32 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:24:45 -0400
> > 
> > Too bad GNU's version of sleep, that accepts fractional seconds, is not
> > portable :-).
> 
> How about introducing a new Make function $(sleep) ? ;-)

I don't see how that can work...?  We don't want make to sleep, we want
the job make invokes to sleep (to emulate a compile that takes some
amount of time).