From 5f624f007d95a8208e98a8741af9bef717760106 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:14:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] build: document how to enable 32 bit time_t builds * README-install: Adjust the info to support 32 bit time_t builds, following the recent change to use the year2038-required gnulib module. --- README-install | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README-install b/README-install index 0c5bcf470..9f33f9ef9 100644 --- a/README-install +++ b/README-install @@ -54,10 +54,8 @@ all mention of "[$(EXEEXT)" from src/Makefile. 32 bit time_t build failures ------------------------ -On systems where it's determined that 64 bit time_t is supported -(indicated by touch -t ), but that coreutils -would be built with a narrower time_t, the build will fail. -This can be allowed by passing TIME_T_32_BIT_OK=yes to configure, +On systems where 64 bit time_t is not supported, the build will fail. +This can be allowed by passing ac_year2038_required=no to configure, or avoided by enabling 64 bit builds. For example GCC on AIX defaults to 32 bit, and to enable the 64 bit ABI one can use: ./configure CFLAGS=-maix64 LDFLAGs=-maix64 AR='ar -X64' -- 2.26.2