Re: Avoiding the sleep(1) in configure.ac

Hi Ross,

    In that block, set am_build_env_is_sane to ``unknown'' if it isn't
    already set, and do the touch/sleep loop if it is set to unknown.
    For the default case the behaviour is unchanged but this will allow
    anyone who wants to gain a second of walltime to set
    am_build_env_is_sane=yes in a site file or similar, and be it upon
    their head if they were wrong...

It sounds fine to me. Can you modify your patch to do that?
I have a lot of other things to look at (including your other report :).

Thanks,
Karl