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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure check for crypt()
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 07:00:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wu6gkv0s.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ad3czy6q.fsf@ID-28718.user.uni-berlin.de> (Andreas Voegele's message of "Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:30:53 +0100")

Andreas Voegele <voegelas@gmx.net> writes:
>
> The following expression could be used to get the home directory, but
> it requires the procedures getpwuid und cuserid which might not be
> available on all systems supported by Guile.

load-user-init in boot-9.scm has it with false-if-exception.

> I'd probably rather tell
> the super user to set HOME or GUILE_HISTORY before using readline :-)

It shouldn't bomb.

I see slib.scm home-vicinity could probably be helped with passwd too.

> FAIL: srfi-19.test: SRFI date/time library: #<procedure time-utc->date (time . tz-offset)> respects local DST if no TZ-OFFSET given

You might have to trace through that to see where it goes wrong.

The test looks like it relies on the system understanding TZ=CET.  Or
maybe LOCALTIME_CACHE should be set, if the configure test didn't
recognise that.  Or something.


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-21 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-15 19:48 [PATCH] configure check for crypt() Andreas Voegele
2004-02-19 10:27 ` Andreas Voegele
2004-02-20 23:17   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-21  0:52     ` Rob Browning
2004-02-21  7:30     ` Andreas Voegele
2004-02-21 21:00       ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2004-02-21 21:41       ` Kevin Ryde

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