Re: [Freemint-discuss] Fwd: Re: Timezone and timestamp

[Thorsten O. <ad...@th...>]

On Dienstag, 7. August 2018 07:24:46 CEST Paul Wratt wrote:
> on that note, if this continues, wont it be easier to copy/share a 020-060
> tzinit and timezone files from a known working source.

This is actually a major issue. First off, the current timezone database in 
mintlib is a bit outdated. But most importantly: with our current cross-
compilation setup, it cannot easily be build automatically. You (obviously) 
cannot use the just build executables for that, and it is also very difficult 
to compile them by the native host compiler in a way that the generated 
executables (zic mainly) produce files that are then usable by the target 
system afterwards. Also there might be mismatches with pathnames from the host 
and the target, some of them are compiled in.