On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:07:25AM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Hi > > > > As discussed in cygwin-apps here's a small patch to point cygwin to an existing > > time zone datasbase when the tzcode/data package is installed. > > Should we do some extra stuff to maintain backward compatibility with > the old /usr/local/etc path? I don't think so but... > > Corinna
That's pretty much what I suggested in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/msg00443.html>. Right now, the code is not $TZDIR-aware, AFAICS. IMO, having it first check the TZDIR environment variable, and if that's not set, default to the #defined value of TZDIR would be the right solution. Something like (very raw) Index: localtime.cc =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -p -r1.8 localtime.cc --- localtime.cc 20 Dec 2002 03:40:00 -0000 1.8 +++ localtime.cc 1 Dec 2003 16:44:49 -0000 @@ -717,7 +717,8 @@ tzload(const char *name, struct state *s register int fid; save_errno save; - if (name == NULL && (name = TZDEFAULT) == NULL) + if (name == NULL && (name = getenv("TZDEFAULT")) == NULL + && (name = TZDEFAULT) == NULL) return -1; { register int doaccess; @@ -734,7 +735,7 @@ tzload(const char *name, struct state *s ++name; doaccess = name[0] == '/'; if (!doaccess) { - if ((p = TZDIR) == NULL) + if ((p = getenv("TZDIR") == NULL && (p = TZDIR) == NULL) return -1; if ((strlen(p) + strlen(name) + 1) >= sizeof fullname) return -1; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
