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- From: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: GNU date-1.7 dumps core
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.093754.13337@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- Organization: Washington State University
- References: <1992Sep12.073508.24697@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 09:37:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.073508.24697@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale) writes:
- >When I saw reports here that date-1.7 dumps core because of a configuration
- >problem involving conflicting definitions of tzname, I was surprised because
- >I hadn't encountered that problem myself.
- >
- >But, it turns out that the problem shows up in strftime() and I had removed
- >strftime.o from the objects to be made in lib/Makefile in order to create a
-
- It just is one of the bugs in libc.a fixed in jump tabel 4.1. All the
- testers are running shellutils 1.7 now.
-
- >smaller binary. You can also remove getopt.o, getopt1.o and a few other
- >things. If you don't feel like going to all this bother, Jim Weigand has
- >already done it on his root disks.
- >
-
- All the bonuses you can get with jump table 4.1 are compiled with
- getopt*.c and regex.c in libc.a. I just put the best in libc.a. No need
- for anything else.
-
- >BTW, the configuration problem has been reported on gnu.utils.bug as it
- >occurred on another platform as well.
-
- BTW, jump tabel 4.1 should be out this Sunday.
-
-
- H.J.
-