A few tests from tests/test-posixtm.c fail on Haiku. These are the same
as what fail on other platforms. I assume this means the time string
cannot fit into 'struct tm' or 'time_t' on these platforms, not a bug in
Gnulib's code.
Therefore, I pushed the attached patch to disable them.
Collin
>From 114d91d7c3c829290eca4ef4701a22397aa04223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-ID: <114d91d7c3c829290eca4ef4701a22397aa04223.1753329333.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com>
From: Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:54:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] posixtm tests: Avoid test failure on Haiku.
* tests/test-posixtm.c (T): On Haiku, disable test cases that would
fail.
---
ChangeLog | 4 ++++
tests/test-posixtm.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5a30fab82d..33bd581f88 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2025-07-23 Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com>
+ posixtm tests: Avoid test failure on Haiku.
+ * tests/test-posixtm.c (T): On Haiku, disable test cases that would
+ fail.
+
sethostname tests: Avoid test failure on Haiku.
* tests/test-sethostname2.c (main): On Haiku, skip the "too long
hostname" test.
diff --git a/tests/test-posixtm.c b/tests/test-posixtm.c
index bace904ce2..f5f8ea1af1 100644
--- a/tests/test-posixtm.c
+++ b/tests/test-posixtm.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static struct posixtm_test const T[] =
{ "12131415", LY, 1, 0}, /* ??? Dec 13 14:15:00 ???? */
#if !((defined __APPLE__ && defined __MACH__) || defined __sun \
- || (defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__))
+ || defined __HAIKU__ || (defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__))
/* These two tests fail on 64-bit Mac OS X 10.5 and on 64-bit Solaris up
through at least Solaris 11.3, which is off by one day for timestamps
before 0001-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. */
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ static struct posixtm_test const T[] =
- INT64_C (62135596801)},/* Fri Dec 31 23:59:59 0 */
#endif
#if !(defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__)
+# if !defined __HAIKU__
{ "000101010000.00", LY, 1,
- INT64_C (62135596800)},/* Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 1 */
+# endif
{ "190112132045.51", LY, 1,
- INT64_C (2147483649)},/* Fri Dec 13 20:45:51 1901 */
{ "190112132045.52", LY, 1,
--
2.50.1
