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Re: bug#27736: OSX 10.6.8: Building from master branch fails.
From: |
Charles A. Roelli |
Subject: |
Re: bug#27736: OSX 10.6.8: Building from master branch fails. |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:02:07 +0200 |
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:29:38 -0700
>
> On 03/28/2018 11:54 AM, Charles A. Roelli wrote:
> >
> > - time_t t = -67768038400665600;
> > + time_t t = -67768038400666600;
>
> Thanks, I did that in Gnulib and propagated the result into Emacs master
> (see attached patch).
>
> > And then I got the following in the output of ./configure:
> >
> > checking whether localtime loops forever near extrema... ./configure:
> > line 30561: 35760 Alarm clock TZ=QQQ0 ./conftest$EXEEXT
>
> Thanks for mentioning that; I attempted to suppress the "Alarm clock"
> stuff in the attached patch too.
Thank you. Strangely, it looks like it still prints the invocation,
however:
checking whether localtime loops forever near extrema... ./configure: line
30562: 55052 Alarm clock ( TZ=QQQ0 ./conftest$EXEEXT ) > /dev/null
2>&1
yes
Not sure why that is still so.
> > I will try to find the exact boundary of the hang again. And the hang
> > is timezone-dependent, so that complicates things too.
>
> I think we should be OK here, as the test case uses UTC so that it is
> reproducible. The use of UTC could explain why the abovementioned
> numeric change was needed.
Thanks, it should be okay to leave it at that. (I hadn't realized the
test case was using UTC.)