Re: Current Gnats 4 CVS broken on Solaris

[Carl E . Lindberg]

> 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