Re: getdate.y fails to compile on QNX 6

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Matt Kraai <address@hidden> writes:
>> , which is still present in the latest Gnulib sources.  time_t is
>> equivalent to an unsigned long, which causes both of the comparisons
>> to fail.
>
> It looks like someone has to port getdate.y to QNX 6, then.  Do you
> have the time to do that?  QNX 6 is certainly entitled by POSIX to
> have an unsigned long time_t, but that (ahem) unusual implementation
> will break the code in 'getdate'.
>
> One hacky workaround is to remove the offending "verify" line.  The
> resulting code will fail miserably with some time stamps, but perhaps
> you won't run into any of those time stamps.

To get an idea of what can go wrong in that case, try building coreutils

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.92.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.92.tar.lzma

with it, and then run "make check".  There should be tests for
at least some of the corner cases in tests/misc/date.