Bug#507731: libc6: AC_FUNC_MKTIME failing

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

reassign 507731 autoconf
close 507731 2.61-7
thanks

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:19:42PM -0500, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.7-16
> Severity: normal

> I'm building owfs, which uses the AC_FUNC_MKTIME, and it's deciding
> that mktime doesn't work, after a timeout

This was a bug in GNU Autoconf, fixed upstream and in Debian's
autoconf/2.61-7, see the chandelog for details.  You should regenerate
owfs' build system or circumvent the test with 
`./configure ac_cv_func_working_mktime=yes'.

With 2.61-8 on a Debian testing machine:

cat > configure.ac <<'EOF'
AC_INIT
AC_FUNC_MKTIME
AC_OUTPUT
EOF

$ autoreconf
$ time ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
[...]
checking for working mktime... yes
configure: creating ./config.status

real    0m5.709s
user    0m1.384s
sys     0m1.088s