Re: [FYI] {maint} tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Monday 09 May 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ apologies if you receive this multiple times ]
> 
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, May 07, 2011 at 03:02:02PM CEST:
> > * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of
> > the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated.
> > This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files
> > with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t'
> > option.
> 
> Please make sure autoconf.texi and the FreeBSD PR database know about
> this ls glitch.
> 
> Thank you,
> Ralf
>
I'm not anymore sure of my diagnosis here (see my answer on bug-autoconf).
I'll have to look more carefully into this.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano