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Binary distributions might not be compatible with macOS <10.13
Currently we set `MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.10` when building binary distributions. We also explicitly disable `ac_cv_func_clock_gettime` (see #12858) and `ac_cv_func_utimensat` (#17895). Together, these measures are supposed to guarantee compatibility with all macOS releases 10.10 and later. However, while working on enabling more C compiler warnings in !9579 I found that the x86-64/Darwin build reported the following: ``` ===> Command failed with error code: 1 /var/folders/40/9ycf5rrj1mq89k2xdpyt5rl00000hm/T/ghc51748_0/ghc_2.c:14:113: error: error: 'futimens' is only available on macOS 10.13 or newer [-Werror,-Wunguarded-availability-new] | 14 | HsInt32 ghczuwrapperZC3ZCunixzm2zi8zi0zi0ZCSystemziPosixziFilesziCommonZCfutimens(HsInt32 a1, void* a2) {return futimens(a1, a2);} | ^ HsInt32 ghczuwrapperZC3ZCunixzm2zi8zi0zi0ZCSystemziPosixziFilesziCommonZCfutimens(HsInt32 a1, void* a2) {return futimens(a1, a2);} ``` This suggests that we also need to disable `ac_cv_func_futimens` (and potentially others).
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