Re: autoconf-2.72d on CentOS 8: testsuite: 11 failed

"Zack Weinberg" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Fri, Dec 1, 2023, at 6:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-12-01 08:18, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> ...
>>> 2023-12-01+08:27:37.7201689730	configure
>>> 2023-12-01+08:27:39.8531823020	autom4te.cache/requests
> ...
>> 2023-12-01+06:44:03.2893079030  stderr-raw
>> 2023-12-01+06:44:05.4383178570  configure
>> 2023-12-01+06:44:05.4393178610  autom4te.cache/requests
>
> A difference between Zack's good output and your bad output is that 
> Zack's build did not rebuild configure (it's two seconds older than 
> autom4te.cache/requests) but yours did.

Yup. That's about as far as I got myself.

> In reading the code it's clear that it's confused about timestamps in 
> this area as it is using the maximum of two timestamps when it should be 
> using the minimum

In Bruno's report it looks to me as if both cache files are newer than configure.ac, so it *shouldn't* be the problem? But I don't see what else could be wrong here...

zw
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