Hi Bruno, This is with Automake 1.16.5 and Autoconf 2.71 on an ext4 file system. [...] When I add an 'rm -rf autom4te.cache' command before 'automake -a -c', the failures disappear.
FWIW, in the Automake development sources, there is now a test to see if autom4te is the new version (thanks to Bogdan and Jacob). Thus it should work with both old and new autom4te. I don't know when there will be a new Automake release. Hopefully sooner rather than later ... --best, karl. 2023-11-01 Bogdan <bogdro_...@gmx.us> m4: fall back to non-fractional timestamps with older autom4te. * m4/sanity.m4 (_AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION): if HiRes is not present in Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, do not consider fractional sleeps.