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Re: Some more <config.h> reminders


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Some more <config.h> reminders
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:30:27 -0500
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This patch doesn't look right, since it causes year2038 to depend on a bunch of modules like sys_shm that most programs don't need.

I don't know why year2038 should depend on sys_shm etc. But whatever the reason, let's remove those dependencies as they're more likely to cause problems than cure them. year2038 needs to depend on largefile, due to the way _TIME_BITS works. But it shouldn't need to depend on the other modules.

I suppose it would be OK for sys_shm etc. to depend on year2038, if there's some concern about one module being used without the other. Still, that seems like a bit of an imposition, as I assume some packages are not worried about the year2038 issue (they don't intend to be run on obsolescent 32-bit platforms) and so won't want to use year2038.




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