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From: | Ken Brown |
Subject: | Re: Configure test for whether localtime caches TZ |
Date: | Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:25:29 -0400 |
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On 10/31/2010 2:30 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
Ken Brown wrote:The configure test for whether localtime caches TZ directly modifies the environment and so (according to POSIX) might produce unreliable results. Wouldn't it be better to use unsetenv, as in the following patch (against the emacs-23 branch):Seems better, assuming it is portable. Not worth putting in emacs-23 IMO though, since the current code has been there for decades with no (?) reported problems.
It should be more portable than the existing code. I've checked it into the trunk.
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