> On 13 Nov 2022, at 05:11, Zack Weinberg <z...@owlfolio.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, at 4:33 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, at 4:31 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: >>> Because of the concerns raised in this thread it's become clear that >>> what's in Autoconf now is too drastic, and I've proposed (though not yet >>> implemented) a change that will cause AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to continue to >>> not affect time_t unless there's an affirmative request like >>> "./configure --enable-year2038". >> >> I am tinkering with an implementation of this right now; more in a couple >> hours. > > "A couple hours" more like eight, ugh. > > I have not pushed this, and have only tested it lightly on a current Linux. > It needs testing on weird old systems, particularly old AIX, HP-UX, MinGW. > > I don't think a 2.72 release tomorrow is realistic anymore. The soonest > after that I will be able to do one is next weekend, but that should give > people time to experiment with this. >
The approach sounds right from reading NEWS but I haven't looked at the patch itself yet (or tried it anywhere). I hope to find some time this week but all of the interesting systems I have access to are still Linux, so not that interesting for the purposes of testing this.
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