GNU bug report logs - #63492
regression for Y2K38 in diffutils 3.9

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 02:20:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: regression for Y2K38 in diffutils 3.9
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 19:19:14 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Originally reported to GNU grep as bug #63484, because the latest release
failed its test for Y2K38 with a diff error.

Shown not to affect 3.8, and therefore a regression for 3.9 that was
introduced through gnulib.

Carlo

[0001-gnulib-fix-Y2038-bug-again.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 63492-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#63492: regression for Y2K38 in diffutils 3.9
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 22:24:30 -0700

Thanks, I installed that.
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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 63492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, carenas <at> gmail.com
Cc: 63492-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#63492: bug#63492: regression for Y2K38 in
 diffutils 3.9
Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 08:50:50 +0200

On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 7:25 AM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, I installed that.

Thank you both.
This change introduced a new failure that's seen when running "make distcheck".

  tests/y2038-vs-32bit:10:in in
  tests/y2038-vs-32bit:11:in in
  maint.mk: doubled words
  make[3]: *** [maint.mk:1050: sc_prohibit_doubled_word] Error 1

You can also see that same failure by running "make syntax-check", to
run all of those tests, or by running "make sc_prohibit_doubled_word"
to run just that one.

I've just pushed a change to tell the framework to exempt this one new
test file:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=cc36781560ab60d0ecd6c35f372c319cdbc32b67
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