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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-04-09 19:18:57 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-04-09 19:21:55 -0700
commitffd62ab92c259d513a419b4078a45f1c658dc774 (patch)
treec981fbdf878a19815a1eafa322560b0eca33c89a
parent6f91c2eac364341111a24f1f6d2155b290da7651 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-ffd62ab92c259d513a419b4078a45f1c658dc774.tar.gz
maint: require support for post-2038 timestamps
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Replace year2038 with year2038-required.
-rw-r--r--NEWS5
-rw-r--r--bootstrap.conf2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9d7836d7b..0de16df30 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Previously it deduced the size of inputs while leaving the offset unchanged.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.27]
+ Coreutils programs no longer fail for timestamps past the year 2038
+ on obsolete configurations with 32-bit signed time_t, because the
+ build procedure now rejects these configurations.
+ [This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+
** Changes in behavior
'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now issue an error diagnostic if skipping a file,
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index c122354a1..eca4edb73 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ gnulib_modules="
xstrtol-error
xstrtold
xstrtoumax
- year2038
+ year2038-required
yesno
"