For mod times farther in the future, print the value in fixed-point rather

than exponential notation (patch from Bruno Haible).

AUTHORS

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ Other contributors:
   Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
   Carl Staelin (Princeton University)
   Ian Stewartson (Data Logic Limited)
+  Ramon Garcia Fernandez <ramon.garcia.f@gmail.com>
 
 With suggestions/comments/bug reports from a cast of ... well ...
 hundreds, anyway :)

ChangeLog

@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 	* commands.c, file.c, job.c, remake.c, read.c, variable.c, main.c:
 	Ditto.
 
+2007-10-27  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	* remake.c (f_mtime): Print time difference values between 100 and
+	ULONG_MAX in fixed-point notation rather than in exponention notation.
+
 2007-10-12  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
 	* variable.c (do_variable_definition): Allow $(SHELL) to expand to

remake.c

@@ -1302,8 +1302,14 @@ f_mtime (struct file *file, int search)
                 (FILE_TIMESTAMP_S (mtime) - FILE_TIMESTAMP_S (now)
                  + ((FILE_TIMESTAMP_NS (mtime) - FILE_TIMESTAMP_NS (now))
                     / 1e9));
-              error (NILF, _("Warning: File `%s' has modification time %.2g s in the future"),
-                     file->name, from_now);
+              char from_now_string[100];
+
+              if (from_now >= 99 && from_now <= ULONG_MAX)
+                sprintf (from_now_string, "%lu", (unsigned long) from_now);
+              else
+                sprintf (from_now_string, "%.2g", from_now);
+              error (NILF, _("Warning: File `%s' has modification time %s s in the future"),
+                     file->name, from_now_string);
 #endif
               clock_skew_detected = 1;
             }