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


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [FYI] {maint} tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 22:26:56 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04)

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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



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