bug#19874: 25.0.50; encode-time not working as expected

[Ashish SHUKLA]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:15:52 -0800, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> said:
| Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
|| When I looked into this before filing this bug report, from what I noticed
|| that it's not using libc's `mktime' function, unlike what you seem to
|| indicate. I'm not sure quite why it's doing that when libc provided mktime
|| works just fine

| It may work for this example, but 'configure' checks for a number of
| mktime bugs, and perhaps mktime is not working for some other
| examples.

| Is 'configure' setting APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD to 1, or to 0?  You can
| tell by looking for APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD in lib/Makefile.

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% fgrep APPLE_UNIVERSAL lib/Makefile
APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD = 0
##            -e 's/@''APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD''@/$(APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD)/g' \
              -e 's/@''APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD''@/$(APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD)/g' \
#             -e 's/@''APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD''@/$(APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD)/g' \
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

| When 'configure' says 'checking for working mktime', what's the result?

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configure:25619: checking for working mktime
configure:25827: clang -o conftest -g -march=corei7  -g -fstack-protector 
-fno-strict-aliasing   -I/usr/local/include  -L/usr/local/lib 
-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -ltinfo -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib con
ftest.c   >&5 
configure:25827: $? = 0
configure:25827: ./conftest
configure:25827: $? = 3
configure: program exited with status 3
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| If you compile and run the attached program, using the same flags that
| you use to build Emacs, what is its exit status?

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emacs-25.0.50.20150206.5c9ad35f/src % clang -o /tmp/mktime-test  -g 
-march=corei7  -g -fstack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing   -I/usr/local/include 
 -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib -ltinfo -fstack-protector 
-L/usr/local/lib /tmp/mktime-test.c
emacs-25.0.50.20150206.5c9ad35f/src % /tmp/mktime-test 
emacs-25.0.50.20150206.5c9ad35f/src % echo $?
3
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Thanks!
-- 
Ashish SHUKLA

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