Re: Timezone problems / HAVE_INT_TIMEZINE

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Mattias Kregert <matti@algonet.se>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es>, Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@mika.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-03-19T03:10:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Couldn't this be tested for, just like there is a "flex test" which 
> finds out if flex is ok or not? Can the configure script find out and 
> add HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE if appropriate?

Uh, it does a test already by trying to compile a program referencing a
global integer variable called "timezone". Somehow a few systems will
compile that but don't really have a useful integer timezone
(RH5.0/glibc2.0 is one of those).

I'm wondering if we could change the sense of the test, to try instead
to test for the presence of a timezone field in the tm structure? That
might fix the glibc2.0 port (assuming it still has problems at v2.0.7;
haven't tested recently) but I don't know which other ports might break.

Can we experiment with this Marc?? Post-megapatch of course :)

                      - Tom