Re: RFE: make automake's output deterministic

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:06:44AM CET:
> 
> > I have spent some time trying to reproduce this over here,
> > but couldn't (perl 5.8.7, by the way).
> 
> I have perl 5.8.1. And I'm running it on a tmpfs file system.

Yep, tried tmpfs, too, to no avail.

> > When you apply the following patch to Automake, and undo my fix,
> > does that expose the failure for you?  You can try with
> >   make && cd tests && make check VERBOSE=yes TESTS=output-order.test
> 
> Yes. Without your fix, the test fails, and with your fix, it passes:

Good. Thanks for testing, I've applied that patch, too.

> make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /dev/shm/automake-1.10/tests »
> make[1]: »defs« ist bereits aktualisiert.

Interesting combination of languages you have there ...

Cheers,
Ralf