Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached slightly different
patch into Autoconf on Savannah. This patch also changes one other
instance of file timestamp comparison from < to <=. Something like this
should appear in the next Autoconf release.From
Jacob Bachmeyer , Sat Apr 01 2023 04:54:22
GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)
A quick introduction to the situation for the Autoconf list:
The Automake maintainers have encountered a bizarre issue with
sporadic random test failures, seemingly due to "disk writes not
taking effect" (as
