Re: CVS autoconf full testsuite failure under Tru64

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Joly <address@hidden> writes:

Nicolas> Hi,

Hi Nicolas,

I really wonder what I would do if you were not there to check my
mistakes :(

Nicolas> 1) Vendor `diff' cannot use `/dev/null', and fail back to
Nicolas> `at-devnull' instead. But `at-*' files (at_data_files) are
Nicolas> cleaned before each test, then `diff's on all tests are
Nicolas> failing.

How dumb I was.  I'll move the life long Autotest files into AT-*, and
keep the others in at-*.  Thanks!

Nicolas> 2) `date +%s' is not portable. At least Tru64 unix v5.1 (and
Nicolas> Solaris v2.5.1) command does not understand it.

Nicolas> address@hidden [~/temp]> uname -a OSF1 medusa.sis.pasteur.fr
Nicolas> V5.1 732 alpha address@hidden [~]> date "+%s" %s

But the code is not expected to be mandatory.  How exactly does it
behave?

How, I see:

at_start_time=`date +%s` 2>/dev/null

should be written

at_start_time=`(date +%s) 2>/dev/null`

right?  I'll do that, gimme just a few minutes.