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

[Eric S. Raymond]

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.
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