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Re: [PATCH v2] timezone: add a configure flag to disable program install
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:48:03 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] timezone: add a configure flag to disable program install
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 09/18/2015 11:46 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > This allows tests to run & pass regardless of the configure flag.
>
> Shouldn't distros with tzcode's zic normally want to do these test with the
> distro-supplied zic rather than glibc's zic? Suppose glibc's zic generates
> version-2 format and tzcode's zic generates version-3 format: testers on such
> a distro will want to make sure that glibc can read version-3-format tz files.
I don't think such testing should depend on the distribution. Rather, we
should test that glibc works with both versions (bug 16334).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com