Re: using color-tests backwards-portably

Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:29:21AM CEST: [...] > systems with automake older than 1.11. > On those systems, it's fine to ignore or disable these > two unsupported options. Yes. Often, automake's rejection of unsupported options is stricter than it would need to be.

Re: avoid a 1-second sleep in every configure script

Hi Jim, thanks for the patch. * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:20:52PM CEST: > I noticed (by inspection, since I was looking at AM_SANITY_CHECK) > the unconditional 1-second sleep in coreutils' configure script, > and realized that it'd be easy to avoid it on modern systems: > eith