Inspired by #8042. As far as I know, OpenVMS is the only place you're likely to hit an unsigned time_t these days, and Tor's VMS support is... lacking. Still worth letting people know about it, though.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+ o Build improvements:
+ - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
+ are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
+ hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
+ some will remain.
@@ -972,6 +972,10 @@ AX_CHECK_SIGN([time_t],
#endif
])
+if test "$ax_cv_decl_time_t_signed" = no; then
+ AC_MSG_WARN([You have an unsigned time_t; some things will probably break. Please tell the Tor developers about your interesting platform.])
+fi
+
AX_CHECK_SIGN([size_t],
[ tor_cv_size_t_signed=yes ],
[ tor_cv_size_t_signed=no ], [