autoreconf --install --force broke on files with no timestamps

2020-12-08 Thread Pascal Terjan
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=40fa9edce6ad1a05988e4743a7ca64c3a8b3208d broke many things as it is no longer possible to use autoreconf --force --install to replace a file with no timestamp. A lot of install-sh files do not have one. A few examples:

STRERROR_R_CHAR_P broken

2020-11-04 Thread Pascal Terjan
After http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/lib/autoconf/functions.m4?id=326c9a547423d25c621bc5c0ef76edbf6eda8c92 detection fails because is no longer included. checking whether strerror_r is declared... yes checking whether strerror_r returns char *... no configure:11444: