From: Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
To: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
autoconf@gnu.org, c-std-porting@lists.linux.dev,
toolchain@gentoo.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: On time64 and Large File Support
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 09:16:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ypikbkpccl6i.fsf@owlfolio.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26EF336D-C051-49D6-98A9-EF0707591A6D@gentoo.org> (Sam James's message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:57:28 +0000")
Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:
>> On 12 Nov 2022, at 02:20, Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>> I am honestly not sure what to do about this in the long term, but for
>> the proposed “this weekend, just bugfixes” Autoconf 2.72, I do think it
>> makes sense to back out change #2, only — that is, AC_SYS_YEAR2038 will
>> exist, but AC_SYS_LARGEFILE will *not* imply AC_SYS_YEAR2038. That will
>> limit the impact of AC_SYS_YEAR2038 to packages that have explicitly
>> added it, and should make it safe for Fedora and Gentoo to drop in 2.72
>> in order to unblock C23 testing — am I correct? It doesn’t resolve the
>> larger issue, but it gives us more time to think about what the
>> resolution ought to be.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> This is really I think the best option while allowing us time & space
> to complete the larger discussion.
[…]
I am going to go ahead and do this if nobody raises a concrete objection
within the next 24 hours.
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-12 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-11 8:38 Sam James
2022-11-11 9:16 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-11 9:19 ` Sam James
2022-11-11 23:48 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-11 9:19 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11 9:27 ` Sam James
2022-11-11 11:38 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11 20:12 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 2:20 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-12 3:57 ` Sam James
2022-11-12 14:16 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2022-11-12 17:41 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 18:50 ` Bruno Haible
2022-11-12 19:15 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 20:23 ` Wookey
2022-11-12 20:54 ` Russ Allbery
2022-11-12 21:31 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-15 5:09 ` Sam James
2022-11-12 18:19 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-11 9:40 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2022-11-11 11:30 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11 19:01 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2022-11-11 19:28 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2022-11-11 9:46 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-11 11:22 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11 19:56 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 4:20 ` Wookey
2022-11-12 4:28 ` Sam James
2022-11-12 4:56 ` Wookey
2022-11-12 4:59 ` Sam James
2022-11-12 18:33 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-14 8:39 ` Adam Sampson
2022-11-14 11:47 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-14 20:26 ` Arsen Arsenović
2022-11-14 20:52 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-15 7:39 ` Arsen Arsenović
2022-11-11 10:25 ` Richard Purdie
2023-03-01 22:38 ` Eric Blake
2023-03-02 0:29 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2023-03-02 9:04 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 10:28 ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-02 10:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-03-03 5:46 ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-06 8:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-03-06 10:19 ` Florian Weimer
2023-03-02 11:02 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2023-03-02 12:17 ` Bruno Haible
2023-03-02 13:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03 3:30 ` Wookey
2023-03-03 5:50 ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-03 14:01 ` Wookey
2023-03-03 14:14 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03 23:21 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-03 11:49 ` Florian Weimer
2023-03-03 12:39 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2023-03-02 8:30 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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