Re: [gpsd-dev] Refactor the way NTP shared memory segments are addressed.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> 
> address@hidden said:
> > That's very odd.  Are my eyes deceiving me or are those sentences  identical
> > by pairs except for checksums? 
> 
> No, there is a difference.  For example:
> > -$GPZDA,090614.00,11,06,2005,00,00*6D
> > +$GPZDA,080614.00,11,06,2005,00,00*6C
> 
> It's a 9 vs 8 in 090614.00 vs 080614.00
> 
> >> Compiles and checks for me on Debian and Ubuntu.
> > So the test failure is specific to Fedora?
> 
> I haven't seen that error on a non-Fedora box.
> I get the same error on multiple runs.
> 
> I don't get that error on a really old Fedora box. 

Oh, shit on a stick.  I know what *that* means.

It means a bug in recent Fedora's setting of either timezone or the DST flag
has been unmasked by my recent attempt to replace the use of timegm(3), which
is a glibc extension.

I have reverted that attempt.  If you pull head and rebuild the code should
scons check of Fedora 21 correctly.

This reversion also solves a BSD port problem (some BSDs don't have the timezone
global) but it means we're stuck to glibc. Dammit.  
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>