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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2013-03-11 15:33:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2013-03-11 15:33:44 -0400 |
| commit | 2f98bf5c9fac4dfd1bb07564ce08b13d1e330252 (patch) | |
| tree | cbd37edff429666bbb4b05ff9780c4ec7d66f2ea | |
| parent | ef4db3169344567f30fb72e3e9a66154b976d889 (diff) | |
| download | tor-2f98bf5c9fac4dfd1bb07564ce08b13d1e330252.tar.gz tor-2f98bf5c9fac4dfd1bb07564ce08b13d1e330252.zip | |
Warn at configure time when time_t is unsigned
Inspired by #8042.
As far as I know, OpenVMS is the only place you're likely to hit an
unsigned time_t these days, and Tor's VMS support
is... lacking. Still worth letting people know about it, though.
| -rw-r--r-- | changes/warn-unsigned-time_t | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 4 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/changes/warn-unsigned-time_t b/changes/warn-unsigned-time_t new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5f0c36d099 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/warn-unsigned-time_t @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + o Build improvements: + - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there + are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can + hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably + some will remain. diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 864477b8fc..21a83bc4c1 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -972,6 +972,10 @@ AX_CHECK_SIGN([time_t], #endif ]) +if test "$ax_cv_decl_time_t_signed" = no; then + AC_MSG_WARN([You have an unsigned time_t; some things will probably break. Please tell the Tor developers about your interesting platform.]) +fi + AX_CHECK_SIGN([size_t], [ tor_cv_size_t_signed=yes ], [ tor_cv_size_t_signed=no ], [ |