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Re: Failure in building GFortran on Cygwin
On Dec 1 04:13, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> [ snip sensible explanation that I had actually ran into in the past and
> then forgotten about ]
>
> > > Or is pulluting the namespace with a macro called "timezone" too
> > > hideous? In that case we could try declaring it "extern long timezone
> > > asm("_timezone");" in the header.
> >
> > Erm... sorry if my lack of assembler inlining shows, but that really
> > works? If so, it looks like a rather elegant solution to me. I'll give
> > it a try.
>
> Oops, I think it should be asm("__timezone") with two leading
> underscores, as specifying the assembler name like this bypasses the
> compiler automatically adding one.
Works like a charm. I like this. I will apply a patch which removes
timezone from the exported symbols in libcygwin.a and use the above
expression in cygwin/time.h.
Thanks,
Corinna
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