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[Libhdate-public] reverse conversion fail

[Randy <the...@gm...>]

I think I have discovered a bug in hdate.  I am attempting to develope a 
script that needs to convert a Gregorian birth date to a Hebrew birth date 
then then schedule an event to happen on this years current Hebrew 
birthday.  The problem is that at/cron does not recognize a Hebrew date so 
the birth date must then be converted back into a Gregorian date to 
schedule the job.
 
According to the man page Adar I and Adar II are to be numbered 13 and 
14 respectively, and years over 3000 are interpreted as Hebrew dates.  
But when the script passes a 13 or a 14 back into hdate it errors out.
 
The section of the script that fails
 
#!/bin/bash
 
# Temporary Variables for testing purposes
BDay=17
BMonth=3
BYear=2005
 
# Note there are a lot of debugging echo's in this
 
#step 1 convert Gregorian birthday to Hebrew birthday
 
HBDate=`hdate -q ${BDay} ${BMonth} ${BYear}`
# returns
 
#  "a blank line"
#Friday, 17 September 1965, 20 Elul 5725
 
echo " #1 $HBDate"
 
#step 2 separate output from above into the variables
# HBDay = Hebrew Birth Day
# HMonth = Hebrew Month
# HBYear = Hebrew Birth Year
 
HBlocData=`echo ${HBDate} | awk -F"," '{printf("%s",$3)}'`
 
echo "$HBlocData"
  if [ -n "`echo ${HBlocData} | awk 'NF  ==  4'`" ]; then
    HBDay=`echo ${HBlocData} | awk -F" "  '{printf("%s",$1)}'`;
    HMonth=`echo ${HBlocData} | awk -F" " '{printf("%s %s",$2,$3)}'` ;
    HBYear=`echo ${HBlocData} | awk -F" " '{printf("%s",$4)}'` ;
  elif [ -n "`echo ${HBlocData} | awk 'NF  ==  3'`" ]; then
    HBDay=`echo ${HBlocData} | awk -F" " '{printf("%s",$1)}'` ;
    HMonth=`echo ${HBlocData} | awk -F" " '{printf("%s",$2)}'` ;
    HBYear=`echo ${HBlocData} | awk -F" " '{printf("%s",$3)}'` ;
  fi
 
echo "#2 $HBDay"
echo "$HMonth"
echo "$HBYear"
 
set -x
 
#step 3 populate the HBMonth variable
# HBMonth = Hebrew Birth Month
 
case ${HMonth} in
         Nisan) 
           HBMonth="7"
           ;;
         Iyar)
           HBMonth="8"
           ;;
         Sivan)
           HBMonth="9"
           ;;
         Tammuz)
           HBMonth="10"
           ;;
         Av)
           HBMonth="11"
           ;;
         Elul)
           HBMonth="12"
           ;;
         Tishrei)
           HBMonth="1"
           ;;
         Cheshvan)
	   HBMonth="2"
           ;;
         Kislev)
           HBMonth="3"
           ;;
         Tevet)
           HBMonth="4"
           ;;
         "Sh'vat")
           HBMonth="5"
           ;;
         Adar)
           HBMonth="6"
           ;;
         "Adar I")
           HBMonth="13"
           ;;
         "Adar II")
           HBMonth="14"
           ;;
         *)
           echo "Invalid Month"
           exit
           ;;
        esac
 
echo "#3 $HBDay $HBMonth $HBYear"        
 
set +x
 
#step 4 Get the current Hebrew year
# CHYear = Current Hebrew Year
 
HBCDate=`hdate -q --not-sunset-aware`
 
HBDateData=`echo ${HBCDate} | awk -F"," '{printf("%s",$3)}'`
 
  if [ -n "`echo ${HBDateData} | awk 'NF  ==  4'`" ] ; then
    CHYear=`echo ${HBDateData} | awk -F" " '{printf("%s",$4)}'`;
  elif [ -n "`echo ${HBDateData} | awk 'NF  ==  3'`" ] ; then
    CHYear=`echo ${HBDateData} | awk -F" " '{printf("%s",$3)}'`;
  fi
    
echo "#4 $HBDay $HBMonth $CHYear"    
 
#step 5 Convert this years Hebrew Birthday back to the Gregorian 
calendar day
#SNDate=`hdate -q ${HBDay} ${HBMonth} ${CHYear}`
        
CSNDate=`hdate -q ${HBDay} ${HBMonth} ${CHYear}`
 
CSNData=`echo ${CSNDate} | awk -F"," '{printf("%s",$2)}'`
 
    SNDay=`echo ${CSNData} | awk -F"," '{printf("%s",$1)}' | sed s/\ //g`
    SNMonth=`echo ${CSNData} | awk -F"," '{printf("%s",$2)}' | sed s/\ //g`;
    SNYear=`echo ${CSNData} | awk -F"," '{printf("%s",$3)}' | sed s/\ //g`;
 
 
echo "#5 ${SNDay} ${SNMonth} ${SNYear}"
 
exit 0

[Libhdate-public] libhdate : Request to spin up a new version of libhdate with ppc64le support.

[Chandan <cha...@li...>]

Hi Boruch,

We are adding support for new ppc64le (IBM powerPC Little Endian)
architecture as part of which we are looking at all the packages that
need update.
I was looking at libhdate (from repository
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/libhdate/code/trunk and libhdate-1.6.02 as
well) and was failed to build libhdate on ppc64le machine because of
outdated libtool.

We have worked with libtool maintainer to get alpha source release that
has all the needed bits to support building on ppc64le. A stable release
is expected soon.

You can pick up the libtool alpha source release from either of the
below :
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz   (1.6MB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz   (920KB)

Would it be possible for you to spin up a newer version of "libhdate"
which would support ppc64le? by using alpha libtool release?

I can help to validate the new release of the "libhdate" works
well by compiling on ppc64le machine.

Appreciate your response.

Thanks,
Chandan