[PATCH v2 1/2] t0006: skip "far in the future" test when unsigned long is not long enough

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

Git's source code refers to timestamps as unsigned longs.  On 32-bit
platforms, as well as on Windows, unsigned long is not large enough
to capture dates that are "absurdly far in the future".

While we can fix this issue properly by replacing unsigned long with
a larger type, we want to be a bit more conservative and just skip
those tests on the maint track.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 help.c          | 6 ++++++
 t/t0006-date.sh | 6 +++---
 t/test-lib.sh   | 9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
index 19328ea..2ff3b5a 100644
--- a/help.c
+++ b/help.c
@@ -419,6 +419,12 @@ int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	 * with external projects that rely on the output of "git version".
 	 */
 	printf("git version %s\n", git_version_string);
+	while (*++argv) {
+		if (!strcmp(*argv, "--build-options")) {
+			printf("sizeof-long: %d\n", (int)sizeof(long));
+			/* NEEDSWORK: also save and output GIT-BUILD_OPTIONS? */
+		}
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t0006-date.sh b/t/t0006-date.sh
index 04ce535..4c8cf58 100755
--- a/t/t0006-date.sh
+++ b/t/t0006-date.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ check_show () {
 	format=$1
 	time=$2
 	expect=$3
-	test_expect_${4:-success} "show date ($format:$time)" '
+	test_expect_success $4 "show date ($format:$time)" '
 		echo "$time -> $expect" >expect &&
 		test-date show:$format "$time" >actual &&
 		test_cmp expect actual
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ check_show iso-local "$TIME" '2016-06-15 14:13:20 +0000'
 
 # arbitrary time absurdly far in the future
 FUTURE="5758122296 -0400"
-check_show iso       "$FUTURE" "2152-06-19 18:24:56 -0400"
-check_show iso-local "$FUTURE" "2152-06-19 22:24:56 +0000"
+check_show iso       "$FUTURE" "2152-06-19 18:24:56 -0400" LONG_IS_64BIT
+check_show iso-local "$FUTURE" "2152-06-19 22:24:56 +0000" LONG_IS_64BIT
 
 check_parse() {
 	echo "$1 -> $2" >expect
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 0055ebb..11201e9 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -1111,3 +1111,12 @@ run_with_limited_cmdline () {
 }
 
 test_lazy_prereq CMDLINE_LIMIT 'run_with_limited_cmdline true'
+
+build_option () {
+	git version --build-options |
+	sed -ne "s/^$1: //p"
+}
+
+test_lazy_prereq LONG_IS_64BIT '
+	test 8 -le "$(build_option sizeof-long)"
+'
-- 
2.9.1-545-g8c0a069