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

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Raja R Harinath wrote:
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> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
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> > 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'.
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2 seconds isn't long enough sometimes for the DJGPP port on Windows. Windows
has some bizarre issues with the granularity of timestamps. So it was
increased to 5 seconds. It was centralised by defining "sleep" in
tests/defs.in, to make it easier to change the time delay in the future.

Bye, Rich =]

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