Hi Paul, > > - On the first machine type (x86 RHEL 3), I get the test failures > > related to NFS timestamps, mentioned in > > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-11/msg00113.html>. > > I looked into that, and there are some obvious problems with the tests > in m4/utimes.m4. I pushed the following, and it works for me, but my NFS > server > has only 0.02 seconds of clock skew right now and I don't have root > access to introduce a more-serious skew. If you have the time, could > you please try this patch out the host that you mentioned in your > earlier email?
With your patch, I still get "checking whether the utimes function works... yes" and the same failures: test-futimens.h:108: assertion failed FAIL: test-futimens test-utimens.h:101: assertion failed FAIL: test-utimens The time skew on my machine is below 1 second: $ date +"%Y-%m-%d %T.%N"; touch foo; ls -l --full-time foo; date +"%Y-%m-%d %T.%N" 2010-12-26 10:44:40.642361000 -rw-rw-r-- 1 haible haible 0 2010-12-26 10:44:40.000000000 +0000 foo 2010-12-26 10:44:40.692375000 Bruno
