[Python-Dev] Trying to fix time.tzset detection for 2.3.1 (original) (raw)

Brett C. bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Sep 16 01:09:07 EDT 2003

Some of you may remember that I was working on closing a bug for Red Hat 6.1 where time.tzset was being detected by 'configure' when it shouldn't have (it's busted on that platform) for 2.3.0 . Unfortunately a working patch never surfaced in time to be thoroughly tested.

Well, Kurt Kaiser wrote up a patch ( http://www.python.org/sf/762934 ) that seems sound. I have gotten zero responses from anyone to test it on Red Hat 6.1 and a remember that some people here were helping to test last time (I also remember this led to the creation of a wiki page listing platforms various people could test things on but I can't find the page).

I would like to get this in for 2.3.1 (assuming this is considered reasonable; not sure after the discussion that has gone on over what should go into a micro release) if possible. So if anyone is running Red Hat 6.1 or has easy access to one I would appreciate it if you took a look at the patch and gave it a go (don't forget the various steps needed to make the patch work; read the follow-ups to see what needs to be done).

-Brett

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