Re: make-3.82 testcases fail *sometimes*

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:57:16 -0400
> 
> > A sub-make could sleep, no?
> 
> What I'm saying is that if you have a rule like this:
> 
>       foo:
>               $(sleep 0.10) echo hi
> 
> The recipe is always expanded by make before it invokes the shell
> command, so it would be make that runs the sleep operation, and make
> that sleeps, before the shell is even started.
> 
> I don't think that would help the issue we're trying to solve (I really
> can't see a valid use-case for $(sleep) to be honest).
> 
> But, maybe you were thinking of something different?

Forget it, I obviously fail to explain myself.

Here's another idea: provide a simple C application as part of the
test suite that can sleep in sub-second resolution.