Zeugswetter Andreas SB writes:
> > I do not have the original thread where Andreas describes the behavior
> > of mktime() on his machine. Andreas, can you suggest a simple configure
> > test to be used?
>
> #include <time.h>
> int main()
> {
> struct tm tt, *tm=&tt;
> int i = -50000000;
> tm = localtime (&i);
> i = mktime (tm);
> if (i != -50000000) /* on AIX this check could also be (i == -1) */
> {
> printf("ERROR: mktime(3) does not correctly support datetimes before 1970\n");
> return(1);
> }
> }
You don't need to put this check into configure, you can just do the check
after mktime() is used.
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