Re: Multiple issues on GNU/hurd

> On 03/01/16 11:27, James Youngman wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 02/01/16 13:38, Andreas Metzler wrote: Hello, when trying to build GNU findutils on GNU/hurd multiple gnulib testsuite errors have come up: (sid_hurd-i386-dchroot

timespec_sign doesn't work with unsigned time_t

While I can understand why timespec_sign will never return a negative value on platforms whose time_t is unsigned, this is at least worth a note in the commentary to that function. Evidently, even experts such as Paul Eggert trip on these corner cases, see http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emac