Follow-up Comment #2, sr#110989 (group autoconf): No, if I understood Nick and Jacob's suggestions correctly, the idea is to replace $am_sleep / AT_MTIME_DELAY with something like
while [ ! newer_file -nt older_file ]; do sleep $am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution touch newer_file done But we need a Perl helper to implement that, because test -nt isn't in POSIX, and a test implementation that does support -nt will probably be comparing 'struct timespec's directly rather than converting to 'double' first as Perl does. My current vague plan is to make it be a special mode of autom4te, autom4te --ensure-newer newer_file older_file It could also be a separate helper script like move-if-change or automake's "missing". _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110989> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/