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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-05-14 12:17:46 +0200
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2023-05-14 12:17:46 +0200
commit29eff208358df3d6bb1668649f008894a312b336 (patch)
tree432a7375cdf1b53bcf2176161c0454e7f1e14406
parent76402405d17a99f00b46e7bdc2a4896fb11f0d64 (diff)
downloadgnulib-29eff208358df3d6bb1668649f008894a312b336.tar.gz
year2038-recommended: Improve failure diagnostic.
* m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_YEAR2038_RECOMMENDED): Sync from Autoconf.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--m4/largefile.m45
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e5accdb172..34e7d72130 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2023-05-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ year2038-recommended: Improve failure diagnostic.
+ * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_YEAR2038_RECOMMENDED): Sync from Autoconf.
+
2023-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
stdio: use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC
diff --git a/m4/largefile.m4 b/m4/largefile.m4
index 8d4bb7c2e2..a2adb533ae 100644
--- a/m4/largefile.m4
+++ b/m4/largefile.m4
@@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_SYS_YEAR2038_RECOMMENDED],
AS_IF([test "$enable_year2038,$ac_have_year2038" = yes,no],
[AC_MSG_FAILURE(m4_text_wrap(
[could not enable timestamps after mid-January 2038.
- Did you mean to build a 64-bit binary? (E.g., 'CC="${CC} -m64"'.)
- To proceed with 32-bit time_t, configure with '--disable-year2038'.],
+ This package recommends support for these later timestamps.
+ However, to proceed with signed 32-bit time_t even though it
+ will fail then, configure with '--disable-year2038'.],
[], [], [55]))])])
# _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_CODE