https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110521
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/patch/?id=3a9802d60156809c139e9b4620bf04917e143ee2
--- a/lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm
+++ b/lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ This perl module provides various general purpose file handling functions.
 
 =cut
 
-use 5.006;
+use 5.008;
 use strict;
 use warnings FATAL => 'all';
 
 use Exporter;
-use File::stat;
+use Time::HiRes qw(stat);
 use IO::File;
 
 use Autom4te::Channels;
@@ -115,10 +115,11 @@ sub mtime ($)
   return 0
     if $file eq '-' || ! -f $file;
 
-  my $stat = stat ($file)
+  my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
+    $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat ($file)
     or fatal "cannot stat $file: $!";
 
-  return $stat->mtime;
+  return $mtime;
 }
 
 
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