GCC-4.3

[Greg Schafer]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:00:19AM +1100, Greg Schafer wrote:

> I've noticed one other oddity with GCC-4.3. A configure test in Bash hangs
> (times out eventually) which passes with GCC-4.2:
> 
> checking for working mktime... no
> 
> This results in the included mktime being used instead of the system
> supplied one. Will investigate..

Looks like Gawk is also affected. Essentially, any package affected by this
issue needs to be repackaged with a newer (unreleased?) Autoconf.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-12/msg00100.html

We can work around it for now by overriding the test:

./configure ac_cv_func_working_mktime=yes

Regards
Greg