Paul Eggert wrote: > Yes, I'm inclined to not go to much work here. Debian 8 is no longer > supported, and people using Solaris's or AIX's doddering 32-bit time_t > configurations should already know their systems won't work past 2038. > > If someone wants to fancy up the test cases so that they skip these tests on > platforms that build gzip with 32-bit time_t even though 'touch' is 64-bit > time_t, that would be fine; but I'd rather it not be me. > > Since we're close to a release let's do nothing for now.
That's perfectly fine with me. You decide. I only reported what I saw. (Actually, I never report 'year-2038' test failures, since I expect them.) > After the release we can change bootstrap.conf's "year2038" to > "year2038-recommended", so that old-fashioned configurers need to go to some > extra work to say "I want my programs to die a decade from now." Even that is not needed, IMO. Old-fashioned configurers will see a 'year-2038' test failure and can draw their conclusions from that. Bruno
