Re: [bug-diffutils] REPLACE_MKTIME

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.
I see no reason for adding that module to diffutils,
so presume I did it in error.