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Re: [Chicken-users] timegm() considered harmful


From: felix winkelmann
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] timegm() considered harmful
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:36:53 +0200

On 7/29/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
Chicken 2.41 still won't build on Solaris because there is no timegm()
function there; it's a GNU extension, and Solaris doesn't have a GNU libc.
A fallback implementation, currently used only on Cygwin, does appear
in posixunix.scm, but it doesn't work on Solaris 8 either because it
uses setenv() and unsetenv(), which do not exist there -- they were not
added to Posix until a later revision.  I see two possibilities:

Thanks for reporting this - I will try to take care of the problem.


cheers,
felix

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