Thanks for the heads-up. I installed the attached. It's not surprising that
OpenVMS mktime fails the test.
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From: Paul Eggert
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:39:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mktime: port to OpenVMS
Problem reported by
Unfortunately that patch to Automake's mdate-sh is not portable, as TZ='UTC' is
not a portable setting for the TZ environment variable. POSIX says you're
supposed to use something like TZ='UTC0' instead. Although TZ='UTC' works when
glibc is used, this is not necessarily true on other POSIX plat
The TIME_T_IS_SIGNED macro not defined if time_t is unsigned.
This causes the test for working mtime to fail to compile on such
systems such as OpenVMS.
configure:33308: cc -o conftest -g conftest.c >&5
time_t_max = (! TIME_T_IS_SIGNED
..^
%CC-E-UNDECLARED, In this statem
Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
Now back to the patch topic, I think the first union version [1] should
the most suitable one and it is what I am intended to push.
[1]https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-09/msg00730.html
The code for that looks fine for Gnulib. However, the commit message could
