Re: FYI: add a sleep to 'yacc8.test'

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> "Raja" == Raja R Harinath <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  Raja> Hi,
>  Raja> I'm committing an obvious fix to yacc8.test: a sleep to ensure that
>  Raja> the timestamp of Makefile.am changes when it is modified.
>
> Thanks for fixing this.
>
> Someone started to apply unapproved patches on Autoconf CVS a
> few days ago, so maybe this is the occasion to recall the
> process here too.

Whoops.  Starting off on the wrong foot :-)

> The procedure is that people send their diff here and wait for
> someone (Akim, Tom, me) to agree before they commit it.  Even
> those who were allowed to apply patches without waiting will
> *post the diff* as an FYI so it can be post-reviewed by anyone.
>
> This said, I've looked at the change and it's wrong.  We don't
> use `sleep 2' anymore in the test suite, `make maintainer-check'
> will complain and like test/README it will tell you to use
> `$sleep' instead.

I missed that change.  I last remember that it was looking for 'sleep
2'.

> Could you fix this and apply that to branch-1-7 too ?

OK.

- Hari
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