Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2017-07-31 03:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 28 14:50, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2017-07-26 13:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jul 26 11:27, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> On 2017-07-26 04:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 25 14:13, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>>>> On 2017-07-25 12:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>>> Well... on *third* thought, targets may redefine time_t via redefining
>>>>>>> _TIME_T_.  Targets not doing that will get long, so yeah, you're right.
>>>>>>> Maybe it is safer to use always strtoll_l and just break this down to
>>>>>>> time_t on the way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My concern has always been do all newlib RTEMS targets support long
>>>>>> long, even if same as long, and stroll_l?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes.  The long long functions are not excluded like we do with long
>>>>> double stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Trying to build standalone or combined STC for this with changed strptime.c
>>>>>> ld/collect2 fails to resolve ...global_locale.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, it's an internal function to newlib.  You need to include
>>>>> libc/locale/setlocale.h somehow to accomplish that.  STC from Cygwin
>>>>> userspace will do.
>>>>
>>>> Not doing it for me: that's why I asked if there were undistributed locale
>>>> changes in the tree, and maybe in a dev snapshot?
>>>
>>> No, it's an *internal* function, it doesn't get exported.  There's no
>>> (easy) way to build strptime.c outside the newlib tree as part of the
>>> lib.  That's why I said a userspace STC is enough.  Don't try to build
>>> strptime.c as standalone.  Just build it as part of newlib/Cygwin and
>>> test it from userspace by calling it.
>>
>> Finally got all the prereqs installed and a clean build.
>> My configure uses the default prefix /usr/local, which is at the head of my
>> personal path.
>> Is that enough for a test build, and how do I do that, or do I have to replace
>> the current release, with configure --prefix=/, make install into /bin/?
> 
> The configured paths don't matter for the Cygwin DLL itself, and your
> patch doesn't change any headers or entry points of the lib.  So just exit
> from Cygwin, replace the DLL in Explorer, start a shell and go ahead.

Test still won't run as expected after DLL replacement, nor coreutils strptime.
Aren't there lib import files or maps or anything I also have to move?
Attached slightly redacted build config and make logs.

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