From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:18:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: doc: moved year2038 para up X-Git-Tag: v1.0~1466 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b4c04569ef149bf658dc387b193cef1c8d3aaf0e;p=gnulib.git doc: moved year2038 para up * doc/year2038.texi: Move a paragraph up, as it’s lonely at the end. --- diff --git a/doc/year2038.texi b/doc/year2038.texi index 81b212e455..3d58659a43 100644 --- a/doc/year2038.texi +++ b/doc/year2038.texi @@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ after the year 2038. However, if your package needs to support 32-bit platforms that will not be used after the year 2038, you can use the @samp{year2038} module instead. +If the Gnulib module @samp{largefile} is used but neither +@samp{year2038} nor @samp{year2038-required} is used, +@command{configure} will have an option @option{--enable-year2038} +that causes @code{configure} to behave as if @samp{year2038} was used. +This is for packages that have long used @samp{largefile} but have not +gotten around to upgrading their Gnulib module list to include +@samp{year2038} or @samp{year2038-required}. +@xref{Large File Support}. + With the @samp{year2038-required} module, @command{configure} fails on the following 32-bit platforms (or ABIs in bi-arch systems): @itemize @@ -88,12 +97,3 @@ FreeBSD/arm, @item Minix 3.3. @end itemize - -If the Gnulib module @samp{largefile} is used but neither -@samp{year2038} nor @samp{year2038-required} is used, -@command{configure} will have an option @option{--enable-year2038} -that causes @code{configure} to behave as if @samp{year2038} was used. -This is for packages that have long used @samp{largefile} but have not -gotten around to upgrading their Gnulib module list to include -@samp{year2038} or @samp{year2038-required}. -@xref{Large File Support}.