From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Carl E. Lindberg <lindberg@clindberg.org>
To: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
Cc: gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Current Gnats 4 CVS broken on Solaris
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 09:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <0d71e4932160261FE8@mail8.mgfairfax.rr.com>
References: <991303419.19767.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00134.html

> At 16:37 27.05.2001 +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>> Well, it should be fixed now, with respect to the recent time zone
>> discussion.  Please let me know whether it works now.
>
> Sorry, but it seems the configure check for %z support isn't working 
> right. From the configure output, I can see that it detects support for 
> %z on my Solaris 7 system, even though Solaris 7 doesn't support it. If 
> I go on to build and install GNATS, I see exactly the same problems 
> that I reported in my original message.

	Yes, the configure check is broken -- it fails to detect missing %z 
support on MacOS X as well.  I'm not sure what the check is currently 
doing, but it should probably check that a strftime() with a format of 
"%z" results in the first character being '-' or '+'.

	-Carl Lindberg