features-time64.h on non-linux 32b platforms

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Paul Eggert, le mar. 25 août 2026 00:39:03 -0700, a ecrit:
> On 2026-08-25 00:01, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Paul Eggert, le lun. 24 août 2026 23:56:14 -0700, a ecrit:
> > > Which app defines _TIME_BITS=64 and blindly expects that to work on hurd-i386?
> > 
> > gcli does.
> 
> I don't see _TIME_BITS mentioned in the gcli source code that I got from <https://gitlab.com/herrhotzenplotz/gcli.git>. Are we talking about the same gcli?
> 
> Did someone attempt to configure that gcli with './configure CFLAGS=-D_TIME_BITS=64' and complain that the build silently ignored _TIME_BITS?

Yes, it's in the debian packaging, to fix its testsuite on i386 which
will not migrate to _TIME_BITS set to 64 by default:

https://sources.debian.org/src/gcli/2.13.0-2/debian/rules

> If it would be useful for builds like that to fail, perhaps you could add an #error check to glibc's sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/timesize.h. That would be less intrusive than messing with sysdeps/generic etc. Yes, in theory one should make such a change generic to all 32-bit-only time_t platforms, but when there is only one such platform....

Ok.

Samuel