Re: [gpsd-users] Build broken for non-QT

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 13 Jan 2015, at 22:21, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> O'Connor, Daniel <address@hidden>:
>>> That patch would reintroduce a glibc dependency, which we're trying to 
>>> avoid.
>> 
>>> The timezone global is an ugly but standardized feature of the POSIX/SuS 
>>> API,
>>> supposed to be set after tzset(3).  Does FreeBSD really not have it?  
>>> Perhaps
>>> there's a feature macro you need to enable.
>> 
>> I couldn't see it, even better there is this in time.h...
>> #if __BSD_VISIBLE
>> char *timezone(int, int);       /* XXX XSI conflict */
>> void tzsetwall(void);
>> time_t timelocal(struct tm * const);
>> time_t timegm(struct tm * const);
>> #endif /* __BSD_VISIBLE */
>> 
>> So I guess the only way is "if BSD/OSX use timegm else use timezone".
> 
> OK.  I'll accept a patch conditionalizing the code in that way.

This works but is pretty ugly :(

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