# FreeBSD can use either, but MinGW and some others need to use
# libcharset.h's locale_charset() instead.
#
-# Define CHARSET_LIB to you need to link with library other than -liconv to
+# Define CHARSET_LIB to the library you need to link with in order to
# use locale_charset() function. On some platforms this needs to set to
-# -lcharset
+# -lcharset, on others to -liconv .
#
# Define LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL if your gettext implementation doesn't
# need -lintl when linking.
# Define TEST_GIT_INDEX_VERSION to 2, 3 or 4 to run the test suite
# with a different indexfile format version. If it isn't set the index
# file format used is index-v[23].
+#
+# Define GMTIME_UNRELIABLE_ERRORS if your gmtime() function does not
+# return NULL when it receives a bogus time_t.
GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE
@$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
BASIC_CFLAGS += -DXDL_FAST_HASH
endif
+ifdef GMTIME_UNRELIABLE_ERRORS
+ COMPAT_OBJS += compat/gmtime.o
+ BASIC_CFLAGS += -DGMTIME_UNRELIABLE_ERRORS
+endif
+
ifeq ($(TCLTK_PATH),)
NO_TCLTK = NoThanks
endif