On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 12:45 PM, David Wheeler wrote: > FWIW (and I should probably have mentioned this in my original post), I'm > running OS X 10.1.4, and Perl 5.6.1, which I compiled myself. I don't > remember POSIX tests failing, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. > > It might make sense to write a comprehensive stftime test app in C to see > how it differs from what my Perl script found. I would do it, but I'm > JAPH. > ;-) > > BTW, where can I check out the existing bug reports?
Go to http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ and signup/login. Click on the Find Problem tab and type in the bug number. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Moy Apple Computer, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This message is from me as a reader of this list, and not a statement from Apple.) > On 4/26/02 12:10 PM, "Edward Moy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: > >> There is an existing bug report, at least about the %Z problem: >> >> 2861261 - Bug in Perl's POSIX library in OSX 10.1.2 >> >> I will attach your message about the other ones. >> >> I stumbled on the %Z problem myself, and for my needs, have worked around >> it by using Date::Format. But I seem to think that the problem is not >> the >> system level strftime, since I vaguely remember writing a test C program, >> and %Z worked there. My sense is that the POSIX interface to strftime is >> somehow not working fully. >> >> For those of you who have built other versions of Perl under Mac OS X and >> run the tests, POSIX is one of the tests that fails, though not about >> dates, but something else (which I'm not remembering right of the top of >> my head). So I suspect there are problems with the POSIX module under >> Mac >> OS X, but haven't had the time to further investigate. >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Edward Moy >> Apple Computer, Inc. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 15726394 > http://david.wheeler.net/ Yahoo!: dew7e > Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
