On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>
> > Now that I think of it, maybe they don't intend to support right
> > timezones at all, if they are so scrupulous about POSIX: TAI-10 is not
> > POSIX. As if POSIX deserved such respect...
>
> musl supports the zoneinfo format, according to
> http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
> So as long as it does, there's no reason why it shouldn't support
> the right/ timezones, which are zoneinfo timezones just like POSIX ones.
> It's just that TAI-10 isn't a widely used setup, so the zoneinfo parsing
> code probably hasn't been extensively tested in musl with right/ zones yet.
>
OK, let's hope they see it this way!
The program I was compiling (a CLI wall-clock) is thrice bigger with
musl than with diet. Most binaries of your software are *smaller* with
musl, a notable exception being s6-mount (almost twice with musl!).
Cheers
Jorge
Received on Sat Oct 26 2013 - 08:03:07 UTC