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year2038: fix recommendation regarding -m64 flag
From: |
Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
year2038: fix recommendation regarding -m64 flag |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Aug 2021 16:03:56 +0200 |
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The Autoconf manual [1] recommends to put the -m64 flag in CC, not
in CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS.
[1]
https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.70/html_node/Preset-Output-Variables.html
2021-08-07 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
year2038: Fix recommendation regarding -m64 flag.
* m4/year2038.m4 (gl_YEAR2038_BODY): Recommend to put option --m64 in
CC, not in CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS.
diff --git a/m4/year2038.m4 b/m4/year2038.m4
index f53b03f..da0f8d7 100644
--- a/m4/year2038.m4
+++ b/m4/year2038.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# year2038.m4 serial 6
+# year2038.m4 serial 7
dnl Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_YEAR2038_BODY],
AC_MSG_FAILURE(
[The 'time_t' type stops working after January 2038,
and your system appears to support a wider 'time_t'.
- Try configuring with 'CPPFLAGS="-m64" LDFLAGS="-m64"'.
+ Try configuring with 'CC="${CC} -m64"'.
To build with a 32-bit time_t anyway (not recommended),
configure with '--disable-year2038'.]);;
esac
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_YEAR2038_BODY],
[The 'time_t' type stops working after January 2038,
and this package needs a wider 'time_t' type
if there is any way to access timestamps after that.
- Configure with 'CPPFLAGS="-m64" LDFLAGS="-m64"' perhaps?])
+ Configure with 'CC="${CC} -m64"' perhaps?])
gl_warned_about_y2038=yes
fi
])