Thanks for the heads-up. I installed the attached. It's not surprising that
OpenVMS mktime fails the test.
>From afc5fb6e9cb7a64609a7d18c260ed49aa98431a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:39:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mktime: port to OpenVMS
Problem reported by John E. Malmberg in:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-09/msg00100.html
* m4/mktime.m4 (TIME_T_IS_SIGNED): Default to 0.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
m4/mktime.m4 | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6a0b496..82ecf53 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2017-09-21 Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
+
+ mktime: port to OpenVMS
+ Problem reported by John E. Malmberg in:
+ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-09/msg00100.html
+ * m4/mktime.m4 (TIME_T_IS_SIGNED): Default to 0.
+
2017-09-16 Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
manywarnings: port to GCC on 64-bit MS-Windows
diff --git a/m4/mktime.m4 b/m4/mktime.m4
index 8566684..1461905 100644
--- a/m4/mktime.m4
+++ b/m4/mktime.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# serial 29
+# serial 30
dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2003, 2005-2007, 2009-2017 Free Software Foundation,
dnl Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_MKTIME_WORKS],
# include <signal.h>
#endif
+#ifndef TIME_T_IS_SIGNED
+# define TIME_T_IS_SIGNED 0
+#endif
+
/* Work around redefinition to rpl_putenv by other config tests. */
#undef putenv
--
2.7.4
