* 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)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 418ea196cee50ddd469c2329be513b6ee3576d16..89196395de6a40f7a2f8e51641afe6e21d06ac4d 100644 (file)
--- 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

diff --git a/m4/ftruncate.m4 b/m4/ftruncate.m4
index dd37f2dc80494307bb9e5aee850b1ebe20e037fa..419f2493b9e3dccb27f44385072c6841cc25c1ae 100644 (file)
--- 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],
 [