On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:33:43 +0200, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/04/2017 10:00, Thomas Seeling wrote: > That could be done, but what would it bring? The host > /usr/share/zoneinfo should not be used, unless one can assert it is > the same as the one in the to-be-built glibc. I guess it is usually > the case, but who knows what distros may do? So it can only be checked > after glibc has been installed, and fail there, which is roughly > equivalent to what happened to you.
It is possible to do the check early. First, extract only the glibc-VERSION/timezone folder from the sources. Then grep "^Zone\s*TIMEZONE\s" path/to/glibc-VERSION/timezone/* 2>/dev/null | wc -l gives 1 for correct timezones and 0 for the incorrect ones. Kuba -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
