Hi Paul, Jim, Most developers are using glibc systems nowadays. When gnulib creates many replacement header files on such systems, it makes look gnulib a bit ridiculous. So can we avoid to create a header file when it's easy to do so? Here is a proposed patch.
2007-01-28 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modules/sys_time (Makefile.am): Build sys/time.h only when it's the value of $(SYS_TIME_H). * m4/sys_time_h.m4 (gl_HEADER_SYS_TIME_H_BODY): Set SYS_TIME_H. * m4/gettimeofday.m4 (gl_FUNC_GETTIMEOFDAY, gl_FUNC_GETTIMEOFDAY_CLOBBER): Set SYS_TIME_H when setting GETTIMEOFDAY_REPLACEMENT to 1. --- modules/sys_time 22 Jan 2007 23:07:42 -0000 1.4 +++ modules/sys_time 28 Jan 2007 16:24:14 -0000 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ AC_PROG_MKDIR_P Makefile.am: -BUILT_SOURCES += sys/time.h +BUILT_SOURCES += $(SYS_TIME_H) # We need the following in order to create <sys/time.h> when the system # doesn't have one that works with the given compiler. --- m4/sys_time_h.m4 19 Jan 2007 02:04:14 -0000 1.3 +++ m4/sys_time_h.m4 28 Jan 2007 16:24:13 -0000 @@ -52,4 +52,10 @@ dnl Assume POSIX behavior unless another module says otherwise. GETTIMEOFDAY_REPLACEMENT=0 AC_SUBST([GETTIMEOFDAY_REPLACEMENT]) + if test $HAVE_SYS_TIME_H = 0 || test $HAVE_STRUCT_TIMEVAL = 0; then + SYS_TIME_H='sys/time.h' + else + SYS_TIME_H= + fi + AC_SUBST([SYS_TIME_H]) ]) --- m4/gettimeofday.m4 19 Jan 2007 02:00:37 -0000 1.16 +++ m4/gettimeofday.m4 28 Jan 2007 16:24:13 -0000 @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ if test $gl_cv_func_gettimeofday_posix_signature != yes; then GETTIMEOFDAY_REPLACEMENT=1 + SYS_TIME_H='sys/time.h' if test $gl_cv_func_gettimeofday_clobber != yes; then AC_LIBOBJ(gettimeofday) gl_PREREQ_GETTIMEOFDAY @@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ if test $gl_cv_func_gettimeofday_clobber = yes; then GETTIMEOFDAY_REPLACEMENT=1 + SYS_TIME_H='sys/time.h' gl_GETTIMEOFDAY_REPLACE_LOCALTIME AC_DEFINE([GETTIMEOFDAY_CLOBBERS_LOCALTIME], 1, [Define if gettimeofday clobbers the localtime buffer.])