HAVE_TZNAME problem with shellutils-1.7

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1 total messages Started by Robert S. Maier Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:42

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Author: Robert S. Maier
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:42

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Under DG/UX 5.4 on a Data General Aviion, shellutils-1.7 compiles and runs,
out of the box, except for one small problem: date(1) coredumps.  I traced
this problem to an omission in the autoconfigured Makefile.

DG/UX has tzname, but the automatically configured Makefile didn't contain
-DHAVE_TZNAME.  This caused a problem with lib/strftime.c: the function
zone_name() was unnecessarily included and compiled.  zone_name calls
timezone(), but calling timezone() in DG/UX seems not to work.
It's an undocumented function, anyway.

The problem is ultimately due to a bug in the configure script.  It checks
for tzname only if tm_zone is present in struct tm.  I see no reason for
this.  DG/UX has no tm_zone in struct tm, so HAVE_TZNAME never got set.

My recommendation: fix configure (and also, the documentation line in the
Makefile) so that HAVE_TM_ZONE and HAVE_TZNAME are truly independent.  Any
given system may have one but not the other.

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