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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: GNU shell utils 1.7: date(1) dumps core (with easy solution: )
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.155852.23423@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 15:58:52 GMT
- References: <9209013094@gandalf.moria> <147770001@hplsla.hp.com>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
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- In article <147770001@hplsla.hp.com> ericb@hplsla.hp.com (Eric Backus) writes:
- >> In fact, the fix to configure is pretty small. configure tries
- >>to compile a program defining 'extern char **tzname' and gcc complains
- >>because tzname is declared as 'extern char *tzname[]' so configure assumes
- >>that tzname does not exist in Linux.
- >>
- >> You can apply this patch to correct configure :
- >
- >
- >I hope you mailed a copy of this patch to the FSF so next time it
- >won't be a problem.
- >--
- > Eric Backus
- > ericb@hplsla.hp.com
-
- I missed the original post so I may be off base, but "date" compiled
- cleanly and runs OK for me. I'm using Linux 0.97-patch2 on two machines,
- one version of date was compiled with GCC 2.2.2, the other was compiled
- with GCC 2.2.2d.
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson
- * ujlh@sunyit.edu "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
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