Re: [PATCH v2] timezone: add a configure flag to disable program install

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 18 Sep 2015 12:09, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 09/18/2015 11:46 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > This allows tests to run & pass regardless of the configure flag.
> 
> Shouldn't distros with tzcode's zic normally want to do these test with 
> the distro-supplied zic rather than glibc's zic?  Suppose glibc's zic 
> generates version-2 format and tzcode's zic generates version-3 format: 
> testers on such a distro will want to make sure that glibc can read 
> version-3-format tz files.

i'm not sure this is worth the effort.  the current ifeq logic is minimal
and i don't think we want this to get more convoluted.  in this particular
case, i'd rather mark it as caveat emptor.
-mike

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