bug#11346: automake-1.12 - one test fails (due to truncated timestamp)

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 04/26/2012 10:26 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi Peter, thanks for the report (and the fix ;-)

> I just fetched automake-1.12, built it on our no-distro x86-linux-gnu
> system
> 
>   uname -r: 2.6.28.6-x86_64 (most binaries are 32-bit)
>   /lib/libc-2.3.6.so
>   /lib64/libc-2.3.6.so
> 
> and got one test suite failure.
> 
>   FAIL: t/self-check-is_newest.tap 19 - is_newest u x
> 
> It seems that 'touch -r x u' (on jfs) has truncated the timestamp, but I
> have also seen timestamps rounded upwards to the next second (I think).
> 
> Therefore I would suggest to replace
>   touch -r x u
> in self-check-is_newest.tap by
>   touch -r x x; touch -r x u
> such that x's time first gets rounded (up or down) to the next second and
> then transferred to u.
>
Good idea.  Can you confirm that the attached patch solves your problem?

Thanks,
  Stefano

0001-tests-fix-a-spurious-failure-due-to-truncated-timest.patch
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