Paul Eggert wrote:
> I installed the attached patch to address the problem you mentioned.
I'm pulling it into Gnulib:
2023-05-14 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
year2038-recommended: Improve failure diagnostic.
* m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_YEAR2038_RECOMMENDED): Sync from Autoconf.
diff --git a/m4/largefile.m4 b/m4/largefile.m4
index 8d4bb7c2e2..a2adb533ae 100644
--- a/m4/largefile.m4
+++ b/m4/largefile.m4
@@ -171,8 +171,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_SYS_YEAR2038_RECOMMENDED]
AS_IF([test "$enable_year2038,$ac_have_year2038" = yes,no],
[AC_MSG_FAILURE(m4_text_wrap(
[could not enable timestamps after mid-January 2038.
- Did you mean to build a 64-bit binary? (E.g., 'CC="${CC} -m64"'.)
- To proceed with 32-bit time_t, configure with '--disable-year2038'.],
+ This package recommends support for these later timestamps.
+ However, to proceed with signed 32-bit time_t even though it
+ will fail then, configure with '--disable-year2038'.],
[], [], [55]))])])
# _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_CODE
