Re: glib2 GDateTime API tests fail on Mac OS X
On 2011-10-28 at 14:16, Larry Baker wrote:
> > /* we only bother to support version 2 */
> > if (size < sizeof (struct tzhead) || memcmp (header,
> >"TZif2", 5))
>
> The zoneinfo files on my Mac (10.5.8) are TZif format:
>
> >$ hexdump -C /etc/localtime
> >00000000 54 5a 69 66 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |TZif............|
>
>
> Bad. I think glib should test this in configure and disable all the
> GDateTime APIs rather than silently fail at run time.
no, GLib does not work this way; if something is not supported then we
either support it or we hard-require it.
in this case, we'd gladly accept patches to support the TZif format as a
fallback.
ciao,
Emmanuele.
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W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name
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