Thanks for mentioning that. I installed the attached to try to clarify
things.From 2a43cf6ab085708f900aeb7ca1c19a17b2992ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 12:25:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify NEWS
* NEWS: Clarify recent items about AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_REQUIRED,
AC_SYS_YEAR2038_REQUIRED, AC_PROG_MKDIR_P. Reported by Bruno Haible in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-autoconf/2023-02/msg00005.html
---
NEWS | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2e988bed..cf01ee21 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
*** New macros AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_REQUIRED and AC_SYS_YEAR2038_REQUIRED.
These act like AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and AC_SYS_YEAR2038 respectively,
- except that they require large-file and year-2038 support respectively.
+ except that 'configure' fails if the target lacks support
+ for large files and for post-2038 timestamps, respectively.
As with AC_SYS_YEAR2038, application and library builders should
configure consistently.
@@ -91,9 +92,10 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
relative paths now seem to be a more important problem than the
problems of ancient mkdir implementations with race condition bugs.
See <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110740>. The only ancient
- mkdir still in common use is Solaris 10 /usr/bin/mkdir, and for that
+ mkdir still supported is Solaris 10 /usr/bin/mkdir, and for that
platform AC_PROG_MKDIR_P falls back on /opt/sfw/bin/mkdir which
- should work.
+ should work if it is installed; if not, you should avoid parallel
+ 'make' on that platform.
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.71 (2021-01-28) [stable]
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