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From: Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de>
Subject: Re: Incorrect detection of futimesns/futimes in 3.3.0b1
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:22:40 +0200
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Am 19.07.2012 11:03, schrieb RICHARD MOSELEY:
> I am now considering providing a general patch to the configure.ac
> <http://configure.ac> file which will more correctly detect all the
> various flavours of utimes (futimens, futimes, lutimes, futimesat,
> utimensat and utimes) using a different check other than AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
> Or would it be better simply to keep it private and apply the fix each
> time I upgrade the source code to the latest version?

Please create a bug report http://bugs.python.org/ and attach your patch
when it's ready. Other people will find your fix useful, too. The issue
should be fixed in the official distribution.

Thanks
Christian