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

2009-09-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: ... > I've committed the patch now, to be merged in branch-1.11 and master, > with the only additional change to avoid a second sleep in the error > path. > > Cheers, and thanks again, (and sorry for the multi-second delay ;-) ;-) Thanks!

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

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:14:19PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > I think we can fix most instances of this wait portably, without looking > > at subsecond time stamps: let's just try without sleeping first, and > > only if that fails, try again after sleeping. What do you