Re: 1.16.90 regression: configure now takes 7 seconds to start

Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> under what conditions can "checking that 
> generated files are newer than configure" actually fail?

I mentioned two such conditions in [1]:
  - Skewed clocks. (I see this regularly on VMs that have 1 or 2 hours
    of skew.)
  - If the configure file was created less than 1 second ago and the
    file system time resolution is 1 second. (This happens frequently
    in the Automake test suite.)

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-06/msg00054.html