Re: [bug-diffutils] REPLACE_MKTIME

[Paul Eggert]

On 08/13/2011 10:43 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> checking for working mktime... yes
>       -e 's|@''REPLACE_MKTIME''@|1|g' \

Thanks, to fix that I installed the patch enclosed below:

* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove timegm.
This fixes a problem noted by Andreas Schwab in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-diffutils/2011-08/msg00035.html
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index e6a76b4..cc6d88c 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ strftime
 strptime
 strtoumax
 sys_wait
-timegm
 unistd
 unlocked-io
 update-copyright


The following patch introduced the timegm module:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=7ebb24620d87386e5579bef6ff0e50778dff84be

Its changelog doesn't make it clear why timegm was added,
but timegm doesn't seem to be needed now.