A new autoconf release needed to fix mktime integer overflow

[Ismail Dönmez]

Hi all,

Regarding the mktime integer overflow [0] it seems that no released autoconf 
version fixes this and I think this is bad. Initial investigation shows that 
many projects' configure files still use the old mktime time, which makes 
sense because people use autoconf 2.61 which is the latest stable autoconf 
release.

So I wonder, shouldn't there be a new autoconf stable release with mktime fix 
so that we can get people to regenerate their configure files with that 
autoconf. Currently people either should use their custom fixed mktime.m4 or 
should use autoconf from GIT. I don't think those are plausible.

What do you guys think about this?

[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-12/msg00084.html

Regards,
ismail


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