Rewrite commentary to not mention Autoconf 2.72, as the plan is to
jump from 2.71 to 2.73 with no 2.72. Leave code uses of
‘m4_version_prereq([2.72], ...)’ alone, though as they’re still
correct for Autoconf released versions and will help test Autoconf
release candidates.
---
ChangeLog | 6 +++---
m4/largefile.m4 | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7a17b548ce..30aafccaed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5495,7 +5495,7 @@
stdbool: port to C23
* m4/stdbool.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER_STDBOOL): Copy from bleeding-edge
- Autoconf. Don’t define if Autoconf 2.72 or later.
+ Autoconf. Define only if Autoconf 2.71 and earlier.
* tests/test-stdbool.c (bool, false, true)
(__bool_true_false_are_defined): Do not require these to be
defined. C23 still requires __bool_true_false_are_defined but
@@ -5674,11 +5674,11 @@
2022-08-09 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
- largefile, year2038: simplify if Autoconf 2.72
+ largefile, year2038: simplify if > Autoconf 2.71
* m4/largefile.m4 (gl_SET_LARGEFILE_SOURCE)
(_AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE):
* m4/year2038.m4 (gl_YEAR2038_EARLY, gl_YEAR2038, gl_YEAR2038_BODY):
- Adjust to Autoconf 2.72, which should contain the Gnulib
+ Adjust to Autoconf versions after 2.71, which should contain the Gnulib
patches in this area and so should not need to be overridden.
2022-08-07 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
diff --git a/m4/largefile.m4 b/m4/largefile.m4
index 7fb81b864a..b128e24353 100644
--- a/m4/largefile.m4
+++ b/m4/largefile.m4
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
# It does not set _LARGEFILE_SOURCE=1 on HP-UX/ia64 32-bit, although this
# setting of _LARGEFILE_SOURCE is needed so that <stdio.h> declares fseeko
# and ftello in C++ mode as well.
-# Fixed in Autoconf 2.72, which has AC_SYS_YEAR2038.
+# This problem occurs in Autoconf 2.71 and earlier, which lack AC_SYS_YEAR2038.
AC_DEFUN([gl_SET_LARGEFILE_SOURCE],
m4_ifndef([AC_SYS_YEAR2038], [[
AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
--
2.37.2
