Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2023, at 7:33 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>   
>> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>     
>>> Would it help if we added a command line option to autom4te that made
>>> it report whether it thought it could use high resolution timestamps?
>>> Versions of autom4te that didn't recognize this option should be
>>> conservatively assumed not to support them.
>>>       
>> Why not just add that information to the --version message?  Add a
>> "(HiRes)" tag somewhere if Time::HiRes is available?
>>     
>
> Either way is no problem from my end, but it would be more work
> for automake (parsing --version output, instead of just checking the
> exit status of autom4te --assert-high-resolution-timestamp-support)
> Karl, do you have a preference here?  I can make whatever you decide
> on happen, in the next couple of days.
>   

There would not need to be much parsing, just "automake --version | grep 
HiRes" in that case, or "case `automake --version` in *HiRes*) ...;; 
easc" to avoid running grep if you want.

-- Jacob