Re: [PATCH] configure check for crypt()

[Kevin Ryde]

Andreas Voegele <address@hidden> 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.