newer gnulib has rewritten these checks in a way that works for the x32, and for the targets we care about, these checks won't return false. so just drop them to make our life simpler. https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/x32-patches --- findutils-4.4.2/gnulib/lib/getdate.c.x32 2009-05-10 14:23:57.000000000 -0700 +++ findutils-4.4.2/gnulib/lib/getdate.c 2011-12-05 11:41:18.130675712 -0800 @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ wraps around, but there's no portable way to check for that at compile-time. */ verify (TYPE_IS_INTEGER (time_t)); -verify (LONG_MIN <= TYPE_MINIMUM (time_t) && TYPE_MAXIMUM (time_t) <= LONG_MAX); /* An integer value, and the number of digits in its textual representation. */ --- findutils-4.4.2/gnulib/lib/mktime.c.x32 2009-05-10 14:25:13.000000000 -0700 +++ findutils-4.4.2/gnulib/lib/mktime.c 2011-12-05 11:49:38.368589386 -0800 @@ -166,7 +166,5 @@ ydhms_diff (long int year1, long int yda { verify (C99_integer_division, -1 / 2 == 0); - verify (long_int_year_and_yday_are_wide_enough, - INT_MAX <= LONG_MAX / 2 || TIME_T_MAX <= UINT_MAX); /* Compute intervening leap days correctly even if year is negative. Take care to avoid integer overflow here. */