Sam James <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On 12 Nov 2022, at 02:20, Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
