Please consider including these changes, which reduce some ugly warnings compiling scheck.c for zic. Thanks, Roland Index: private.h =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/timezone/private.h,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.11 private.h --- private.h 10 Jan 2006 07:55:37 -0000 1.11 +++ private.h 10 Jan 2006 09:46:12 -0000 @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ void * irealloc P((void * pointer, int size)); void icfree P((char * pointer)); void ifree P((char * pointer)); -char * scheck P((const char *string, char *format)); +const char *scheck P((const char *string, const char *format)); /* ** Finally, some convenience items. Index: scheck.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/timezone/scheck.c,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.3 scheck.c --- scheck.c 6 Aug 2005 05:40:57 -0000 1.3 +++ scheck.c 10 Jan 2006 09:46:12 -0000 @@ -8,20 +8,19 @@ #include "private.h" -char * +const char * scheck(string, format) const char * const string; -char * const format; +const char * const format; { register char * fbuf; register const char * fp; register char * tp; register int c; - register char * result; + register const char * result; char dummy; - static char nada; - result = &nada; + result = ""; if (string == NULL || format == NULL) return result; fbuf = imalloc((int) (2 * strlen(format) + 4)); @@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ *tp++ = 'c'; *tp = '\0'; if (sscanf(string, fbuf, &dummy) != 1) - result = (char *) format; + result = format; ifree(fbuf); return result; }