[Bug 2516] Enable clock_gettime() support for AIX 5+

bk: 52b7e04d6HLZlfDmAtG-sRxjd0ykZw

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6f4dc85f44d48e2036bc1e510024761fd39b5451..17db8d0108c95aa568f2b3c5b6ed3352ec48d13a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+* [Bug 2516] Enable clock_gettime() support for AIX 5+.
 (4.2.7p402) 2013/12/23 Released by Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
 * Incorporate Oliver Kindernay's GSoC 2013 scripts/ cleanup.
 (4.2.7p401) 2013/11/30 Released by Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>

diff --git a/sntp/m4/ntp_libntp.m4 b/sntp/m4/ntp_libntp.m4
index 2f1e2095e3a50b916dbf5cc0e2656c6d5db72264..004f491cdbb6d017e1dff13303244cbfa59b2a51 100644 (file)
--- a/sntp/m4/ntp_libntp.m4
+++ b/sntp/m4/ntp_libntp.m4
@@ -55,8 +55,13 @@ case "$ac_busted_vpath_in_make$srcdir" in
 esac
 
 case "$host" in
- *-*-aix[[4-9]]*)
-       # XXX only verified thru AIX6
+ *-*-aix4*)
+       # Bug 2516:
+       # Was *-*-aix[[4-9]]*
+       # XXX only verified thru AIX6.  But...
+       # Ken Link says this is fine for AIX 5.3 and 7.1, and sees no reason
+       # that this support would be in 5.3, removed in 6, and added back.
+       #
        # (prr) aix 4.1 doesn't have clock_settime, but in aix 4.3 it's a stub
        # (returning ENOSYS).  I didn't check 4.2.  If, in the future,
        # IBM pulls its thumbs out long enough to implement clock_settime,