Paul Eggert wrote: > "Derek R. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Since the utime module only switches on the result of >> AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL, and the Autoconf 2.60 documentation labels >> AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL as obsolescent for lack of practical porting targets, >> would be okay to remove the utime module from GNULIB? > > This one is a bit like memcmp, since it depends on C libraries, > not on C compilers themselves. So one possibility is to put it > on the same watch list as memcmp, exit, etc. > > I think only coreutils uses this module nowadays. Jim, do you know of > any practical porting targets where utime(..., NULL) still doesn't work? The > last time I heard of this bug in the wild was more than ten years ago, e.g., > <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sgi.bugs/msg/ef9d30906e94c8f1>.
I was assuming that Akim would have put a spy in the Autoconf test suite to make sure it was okay to declare this macro obsolescent, but digging into the Autoconf repository, I don't see any evidence of that. I'll implement Jim's watch list for this one, memcmp, the rest of the C89 functions you pointed out, and any others I notice that look promising. Cheers, Derek -- Derek R. Price CVS Solutions Architect Get CVS support at Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>! v: +1 248.835.1260 f: +1 248.835.1263 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
