Re: two recent NEWS entries
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs |
|---|---|
| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Thanks for mentioning that. I installed the attached to try to clarify things.
0001-Clarify-NEWS.patch
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From 2a43cf6ab085708f900aeb7ca1c19a17b2992ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 12:25:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- NEWS | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2e988bed..cf01ee21 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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] -- 2.39.1