The suggested patch relies on the fact that the Makefile does special stuff for "tzlinks" files. Perhaps a comment should be added to the Makefile indicating that any source file containing "Link" lines should be listed in tzlinks. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:33 AM To: peb@mppmu.mpg.de Cc: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: FW: glibc install problem caused by bug in zic (fwd)

From: Peter Breitenlohner [mailto:peb@mppmu.mpg.de] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:56 AM

Bad timing between two instances of zic, where one tried to link to a file which the other had not yet created.

Thanks for the bug report. Here's an untested patch to glibc/timezone/Makefile to fix that timing problem. (Your symlink fix to zic.c is also welcome, but that's a separate problem.) Can you please test this patch? If it works for you, we can submit it to bug-glibc as "the consensus of the tz experts" (all 2 of us :-). 2002-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * timezone/Makefile (tzbases): Move systemv from here... (tzlinks): to here, since the entries in systemv were all changed from Zone to Link lines in tz-2001a. --- glibc-2.2.5/timezone/Makefile 2001-08-29 15:45:25.000000000 -0700 +++ glibc-2.2.5-fix/timezone//Makefile 2002-02-25 23:50:22.373587963 -0800 @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ others := zdump zic tests := test-tz tst-timezone tzbases := africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica \ - southamerica etcetera factory systemv \ + southamerica etcetera factory \ solar87 solar88 solar89 -tzlinks := backward +tzlinks := backward systemv tzfiles := $(tzbases) $(tzlinks) # pacificnew doesn't compile; if it is to be used, it should be included in # northamerica.