Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 02 Dec 2023 18:33, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023, at 6:37 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> >> The best way to check if high-resolution 
> >>     timestamps are available to autom4te is to have perl load 
> >>     Autom4te::FileUtils and check if that also loaded Time::HiRes.
> >>
> >> The problem with that turned out to be that Time::HiRes got loaded from
> >> other system modules, resulting in the test thinking that autom4te used
> >> it when that wasn't actually the case. That's what happened in practice
> >> with your patch.
> >
> > Would it help if we added a command line option to autom4te that made it 
> > report whether it thought it could use high resolution timestamps? Versions 
> > of autom4te that didn't recognize this option should be conservatively 
> > assumed not to support them.
> 
> Why not just add that information to the --version message?  Add a 
> "(HiRes)" tag somewhere if Time::HiRes is available?  All versions that 
> know to check if Time::HiRes is loaded will also know how to use it, 
> unlike the earlier test.

parsing out the exact version from --version is already a pita.  trying it
freeform text that we also want tools to do substring searching on sounds
extremely fragile and the opposite of future-proof.

libtool at least has a --config option that dumps shell-link syntax.
-mike

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