On 05/03/2017 12:30 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> What exactly do you mean by "fell into ..."?
>
> I mean that the bootstrap.conf requests the module 'strftime', whose benefit
> is that it supports GNU extensions in the format string, but it does not get
> used.
>
> 'nstrftime' is meant to lift thi
Bruno Haible wrote:
Only for Cygwin, an empty or absent TZ environment variable means GMT.
That's weird; I don't know of any other system that does that. In many systems,
an empty but set TZ means UTC0 without leap seconds; but an unset TZ typically
means "ask the file system for the time zo
On 05/02/2017 02:55 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
it would be good to know what qualms you have with the msvc-nothrow
module. Should Emacs be built with mingw, not MSVC? Is an EBADF situation never
going to occur in Emacs anyway? Are the portability efforts for mingw and MSVC
in Gnulib useless for Emac
Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > 1) It suggests that it defines the function 'strftime', but in fact it
> > defines 'nstrftime'. GNU findutils fell into this pit: their
> > bootstrap.conf
> > requests the gnulib 'strftime' module but the coded doesn't use
> > nstrftime.
>
> What exactly d
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I'd like Bruno's opinion on the macro clash
The common idiom is "#define WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN". This can be seen by
comparing
the number of hits of two web searches:
https://www.google.de/search?q=%22define+windows_lean_and_mean%22
https://www.google.de/search?q=%22defin
[CC-ing bug-findut...@gnu.org]
On 04/30/2017 04:53 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The name of the strftime module is misleading:
> 1) It suggests that it defines the function 'strftime', but in fact it
> defines 'nstrftime'. GNU findutils fell into this pit: their
> bootstrap.conf
> reques
Hi Paul,
> On 05/01/2017 09:40 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > + /* If the environment variable TZ has been set by Cygwin, neutralize it.
> > + The Microsoft CRT interprets TZ differently than Cygwin and produces
> > + incorrect results if TZ has the syntax used by Cygwin. */
> > + const ch
> Cc: kbr...@cornell.edu, emacs-de...@gnu.org, Bruno Haible ,
> Gnulib bugs
> From: Paul Eggert
> Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 00:52:03 -0700
>
> > the utimens.c file you've brought from Gnulib has 2 problems:
> >
> > . it defines WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN unconditionally, which conflicts
> > with our
On 05/01/2017 09:40 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
+ /* If the environment variable TZ has been set by Cygwin, neutralize it.
+ The Microsoft CRT interprets TZ differently than Cygwin and produces
+ incorrect results if TZ has the syntax used by Cygwin. */
+ const char *tz = getenv ("TZ");
+
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
the utimens.c file you've brought from Gnulib has 2 problems:
. it defines WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN unconditionally, which conflicts
with our own definition in nt/inc/ms-w32.h, which is processed
earlier;
. it includes msvc-nothrow.h, which is absent in the reposito
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Currently:
> - gettimeofday.c contains code that is not related to gettimeofday at all -
> a tzset() override, for example.
> - The user who wants a fixed 'tzset' function will also get a 'gettimeofday'
> replacement, for no good re
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