Thanks Guys, that was the problem. I had to completely remove GNUstep and rebuild/install once ICU was installed.
Cheers Steven On 2013-02-11, at 8:20 AM, Stefan Bidi wrote: > Slackware 13.37 does not offer ICU in the base distribution so you > will need to get it from SlackBuilds > (http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/libraries/icu4c/). > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 10 Feb 2013, at 21:01, Steven LeMaire wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I really don't understand why the code below isn't working for me. I've >>> tried setting a locale and timezone on the date formatter, but it's had no >>> affect. >>> I'm running this on Slackware 13.37, I've just updated to the latest stable >>> version of GNUstep also. >>> Any help would be appreciated ! >>> >>> Thanks >>> Steven >>> >>> #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> >>> #import <Foundation/NSDate.h> >>> #import <Foundation/NSDateFormatter.h> >>> int >>> main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { >>> NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; >>> >>> >>> NSDate *d; >>> NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; >>> [df setDateFormat:@"yyyyMMdd"]; >>> d = [df dateFromString:@"20130215"]; >>> >>> NSLog(@"d is: %@", d); >>> >>> [pool release]; >>> >>> return 0; >>> } >>> _ >> >> That looks fine to me ... so my best guess is you built base without support >> for NSDateFormatter. >> That would happen if you are on a system where ICU is not installed or can't >> be found: >> You should have seen a warning about that when you ran 'configure' for the >> base library. >> >> The fix would be to rebuild base with ICU (I don't know slackware, but I >> guess you might need to install an ICU developer package). >> >> A workaround would be to use NSCalendarDate rather than NSDateFormatter >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnustep-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
