changeset 8201:d2e94bbbda55

* m4/ftruncate.m4: Adjust comment to give this module a 3-year reprieve. Prompted by a report from Bruno Haible that mingw lacks ftruncate. SCALAR(0x704170)
author Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
date Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:19:34 +0000
parents 82bf117aac81
children b0e0eba8a254
files ChangeLog m4/ftruncate.m4
diffstat 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-02-19  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+	* m4/ftruncate.m4: Adjust comment to give this module a 3-year reprieve.
+	Prompted by a report from Bruno Haible that mingw lacks ftruncate.
+
 2007-02-18  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	* lib/readlink.c: Include <unistd.h>.
@@ -243,7 +248,7 @@
 	* modules/imaxdiv (configure.ac): Likewise.
 	* modules/strtoimax (configure.ac): Likewise.
 	* modules/strtoumax (configure.ac): Likewise.
-	
+
 2007-02-17  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	* m4/string_h.m4 (gl_HEADER_STRING_H_DEFAULTS): Include the contents of
--- a/m4/ftruncate.m4
+++ b/m4/ftruncate.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#serial 11
+#serial 12
 
 # See if we need to emulate a missing ftruncate function using fcntl or chsize.
 
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
 # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
 # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
 
-# FIXME: remove this macro, along with all uses of HAVE_FTRUNCATE in 2007,
-# if the check below provokes no reports.
+# FIXME: remove this macro, along with all uses of HAVE_FTRUNCATE in 2010,
+# if the check below provokes no more reports.  So far, the only report
+# arose from a test build of this gnulib module, cross-compiling to mingw:
+# <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/9203>
 
 AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_FTRUNCATE],
 [