# If a file which used to be included is no longer there, then
# don't say it's missing (it might no longer be included). But
# of course, that causes the output to be outdated (as if the
- # time stamp of that missing file was newer).
+ # timestamp of that missing file was newer).
return 0
if ! $file;
push @dep, $file;
#
# Always run it. Tracking its sources for up-to-dateness is too
# complex and too error prone. The best we can do is avoiding
- # nuking the time stamp.
+ # nuking the timestamp.
my $uses_aclocal = 1;
# Nevertheless, if aclocal.m4 exists and is not made by aclocal,
}
else
{
- # Some file systems have sub-second time stamps, and if so we may
+ # Some file systems have sub-second timestamps, and if so we may
# run into trouble later, after we rerun autoconf and set the
- # time stamps of input files to be no greater than aclocal.m4,
+ # timestamps of input files to be no greater than aclocal.m4,
# because the time-stamp-setting operation (utime) has a
# resolution of only 1 second. Work around the problem by
# ensuring that there is at least a one-second window before the
- # time stamp of aclocal.m4t in which no file time stamps can
+ # timestamp of aclocal.m4t in which no file timestamps can
# fall.
sleep 1;
#!/bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2016-01-11.22; # UTC
+scriptversion=2017-09-17.00; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# string we're using came from git. I.e., skip the test if it's "UNKNOWN"
# or if it came from .tarball-version.
if test "x$v_from_git" != x; then
- # Don't declare a version "dirty" merely because a time stamp has changed.
+ # Don't declare a version "dirty" merely because a timestamp has changed.
git update-index --refresh > /dev/null 2>&1
dirty=`exec 2>/dev/null;git diff-index --name-only HEAD` || dirty=
Apart from timestamp resolution, there are also differences in handling
equal timestamps. HP-UX @command{make} updates targets if it has the
-same time stamp as one of its prerequisites, in violation of Posix rules.
+same timestamp as one of its prerequisites, in violation of Posix rules.
This can cause spurious rebuilds for repeated runs of @command{make}.
This in turn can cause @command{make} to fail if it tries to rebuild
@noindent
and if that doesn't work, install pre-built binaries of GCC for HP-UX.
-HP-UX @command{make} updates targets which have the same time stamps as
+HP-UX @command{make} updates targets which have the same timestamps as
their prerequisites, which makes it generally unusable when shipped
generated files such as @command{configure} are involved. Use GNU
@command{make} instead.
]])
AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE([-o file file.m4])
-# Create a file whose time stamp is in the future.
+# Create a file whose timestamp is in the future.
# (next year)-01-01 00:01 UTC should always be in the future,
# even on slow machines.
echo BAD >file
AC_DEFINE(that, "whatever you want.")
]])
-# The test suite goes too fast for the cache time stamps...
+# The test suite goes too fast for the cache timestamps...
# Pass --force.
AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER([--force], [1], [], [ignore])
# -----------------------------
AT_SETUP([autom4te preselections])
-: ${sleep='sleep 1'} # Command to force different time stamps.
+: ${sleep='sleep 1'} # Command to force different timestamps.
# If this test should run on FAT file systems and older w32,
# then setting $sleep correctly needs to be revisited.