Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs

[Dave Love]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

>> Sure.  I'd have thought testing for sys/_mbstate_t.h would have been
>> sufficient.
>
> Same here.
> Do you know what the motivation was for that change?

Afraid not.

>> However, that change is actually for compilers that _do_ support
>> prototypes but don't define __STDC__ by default.  Then if you're
>
> Then configure can select the options necessary to enable
> prototypes?

Yes.  The result is in PROTOTYPES.

> I've seen prototype-related trouble with such systems, too,
> but none since I removed the offending conditionals,
> leaving unconditional prototypes.

Sure.  It's only an issue if you test __STDC__.

> Is src/s/ms-w32.h the windows config file?
> It's defined there, now:
>
>   src/s/ms-w32.h:246:#define HAVE_TZNAME 1

Oops.  I hadn't realized that config.nt includes that, which seems
unnecessary.