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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-02-03 12:25:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2023-02-03 12:25:08 -0800 |
| commit | 2a43cf6ab085708f900aeb7ca1c19a17b2992ece (patch) | |
| tree | ffe13064ca2f725b58ada2375000f5452ad3a791 | |
| parent | e67c9ecda471010c85ea4d62fb663d853ae56954 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-2a43cf6ab085708f900aeb7ca1c19a17b2992ece.tar.gz | |
Clarify NEWS
* NEWS: Clarify recent items about AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_REQUIRED,
AC_SYS_YEAR2038_REQUIRED, AC_PROG_MKDIR_P. Reported by Bruno Haible in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-autoconf/2023-02/msg00005.html
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. *** New macros AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_REQUIRED and AC_SYS_YEAR2038_REQUIRED. These act like AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and AC_SYS_YEAR2038 respectively, - except that they require large-file and year-2038 support respectively. + except that 'configure' fails if the target lacks support + for large files and for post-2038 timestamps, respectively. As with AC_SYS_YEAR2038, application and library builders should configure consistently. @@ -91,9 +92,10 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. relative paths now seem to be a more important problem than the problems of ancient mkdir implementations with race condition bugs. See <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110740>. The only ancient - mkdir still in common use is Solaris 10 /usr/bin/mkdir, and for that + mkdir still supported is Solaris 10 /usr/bin/mkdir, and for that platform AC_PROG_MKDIR_P falls back on /opt/sfw/bin/mkdir which - should work. + should work if it is installed; if not, you should avoid parallel + 'make' on that platform. * Noteworthy changes in release 2.71 (2021-01-28) [stable] |