Re: [RFC PATCH]: autom4te: report subsecond timestamp support in --version

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023, at 11:30 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> $ autom4te --version
>> autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.71
>> Features: subsecond-timestamps
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
>> <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <https://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>> Written by Akim Demaille.
>>
>> This preserves the effectiveness of sed '/Copyright/,$d' and also
>> leaves room for future additions to the "Features:" line.
>
> That looks like a good idea to me [...]

Karl also approved, so I have gone ahead and implemented this and
pushed it to Autoconf.  In the process I discovered that *both*
automake and autom4te need to advertise the capability for subsecond
timestamps; expect a patch for Automake shortly.

zw