Re: acloca20 test intermittent failure

[Paul Eggert]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> +# This command fails with non-GNU hosts, but the test is still useful.
> +touch --date='1min' file

Better yet, we can use the POSIX-standard "touch -t".

Thanks; I installed this.

2006-10-25  Stepan Kasal  <address@hidden>

        * tests/tools.at (autom4te --force): New test, verifies that
        `--force' always rewrites the output file.

--- tests/tools.at      24 Oct 2006 19:44:31 -0000      1.94
+++ tests/tools.at      25 Oct 2006 18:30:04 -0000
@@ -114,6 +114,31 @@ AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR
 AT_CLEANUP
 
 
+# autom4te --force
+# ----------------
+
+AT_SETUP([autom4te --force])
+
+AT_DATA([file.m4],
+[[right
+]])
+AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE([-o file file.m4])
+
+# Create a file whose time stamp is in the future.
+# (next year)-01-01 00:01 UTC should always be in the future,
+# even on slow machines.
+echo BAD >file
+this_year=`TZ=UTC0 date +%Y`
+TZ=UTC0 touch -t `expr $this_year + 1`01010001 file
+
+AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE([--force -o file file.m4])
+AT_CHECK([cat file], 0,
+[[right
+]])
+
+AT_CLEANUP
+
+
 
 
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