2.5 on FreeBSD (was Re: 2.5.1 on FreeBSD 9-Stable)

[Graham Menhennitt]

On 14/07/2013 13:48, John Ralls wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Graham Menhennitt <graham at menhennitt.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 06/05/2013 07:50, John Ralls wrote:
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>>> Yes, gnc-date is thoroughly rewritten for 2.6. The POSIX-compliant functions are designed to fail in 2038, and we've had user complaints about being unable to set up mortgages which extend beyond that date.
>>>
>>> I'll set up a FreeBSD VM and see what I can figure out for 2.5.2. Thanks for the report.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>> G'day John,
>>
>> I tried 2.5.3 (and 2.5.2) on FreeBSD and still have the same problem.
>> It's trivial to make the changes to get it to build. With those changes,
>> it seems to  run correctly (although I'm not currently in Daylight
>> Saving, so I'm not sure if that works correctly). However, I very much
>> doubt that my trivial fix is the "correct" way of doing it. Could you
>> please have another look at this.
> Oh, yeah, *that's* what that VM was supposed to be for. :-/ I couldn't spare enough time to get X working
> well enough to get a development environment going, so there aren't any changes.
>
> Could you make a patch of your change and attach it to a new bug for me to review? 
>
> What version of GLib do you have?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
Done - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704185

Thanks for looking at this, John.

Regards,
    Graham