Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 14 Jan 2023 21:43, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
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You could also exploit that || short-circuits in the shell and replace
the "if" block with " $PERL ... || sleep='sleep ''2' ". This allows you
to directly execute a command on a false result and (I think) it is
portab
i'll note that Automake tests have been using `if ! ...`
since 1.12 (2012),
The automake *tests* intentionally use modern shell syntax and
functionality, because they go to a lot of trouble to set up an
environment where those are supported, via test-init.sh. t/README talks
about this ("pr
I'm still investigating this failure.
So far I could find 2 similar scenarios, both based on 1.16.5 with the
patch, but one that fails, and the other that succeeds, seemingly
consistently.
Case 1: using the 1.16.5 tarball + the patch applied, automake is built and
tested within fedora environment
