Re: requiring 64-bit time_t again in coreutils; off_t too?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/04/2023 03:32, Paul Eggert wrote:
> For a bit of time Savannah coreutils master was rejecting platforms with
> 32-bit signed time_t, with the idea that we really need to get
> installations to be year 2038 safe. Coreutils used Gnulib's
> AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to do that. However, this proved a bridge too far for
> general use, and Autoconf master now has AC_SYS_YEAR2038_REQUIRED to do
> this sort of thing instead. I've migrated this into Gnulib and have just
> installed the attached patch to bring Savannah coreutils master back to
> the state where 'configure' insists on support for timestamps past 2038.

We need to adjust the build instructions to allow enabling 32b-bit time_t.
The attached attempts to do that, but I'm unsure of the details.
Note I tested the attached on Solaris 10 on Sparc,
where the build failed without the ac_year2038_required=no configure option.

cheers,
Pádraig

coreutils-32-bit-time.patch
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