Paul Eggert wrote: > This patch does not address the problem for Alpine, nor I suspect for > Android. I suppose Alpine could use the timestamp of /var/run/utmp (or > is that /run/utmp?) but I don't know how 'configure' would reliably > detect it's being built or cross-built for Alpine. I'll cc this to > Natanael Copa, who does the Alpine ports for Emacs, to see whether he > can give advice.
For Alpine Linux, in Gnulib, I've used the following approach: Read the entire contents of /var/run/utmp, and if it contains no entry with ut_type == BOOT_TIME, look at the time stamp of some files, in particular /var/run/utmp. It doesn't require a configure test. Bruno
