Fix a race condition that causes aclocal7 to fail on fast machines (see the comment below). diff -x config.log -x config.status -ru tmp/automake-1.12.2/t/aclocal7.sh work/automake-1.12.2/t/aclocal7.sh --- tmp/automake-1.12.2/t/aclocal7.sh 2012-07-08 11:48:25.000000000 +0100 +++ work/automake-1.12.2/t/aclocal7.sh 2012-07-10 11:58:50.325999591 +0100 @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ $AUTOMAKE --no-force } +# aclocal will rewrite aclocal.m4 unless the input files are all older than the +# existing aclocal.m4 -- sleep to ensure somedefs.m4 has an older timestamp +# than the aclocal.m4 that the next aclocal call will generate. +$sleep + $ACLOCAL -I m4 AUTOMAKE_after_aclocal