[PATCH] Add --disable-timezone configure option

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure there's much benefit to actually having a package include
>> copies of the data rather than having a --with- argument pointing to where
>> the data files may be found.  By using --with, the package would only need
>> updating pretty infrequently (and people generally want minimal latency
>> when getting tzdata updates).
>
> I hadn't thought of that.  It sounds fine too.

I also like the idea of a --with- argument because it helps us run the
tests against the tzdata provided by the distro.

We should *also* IMO include legacy tzdata binaries in glibc to test
compatibility with old formats, I am 100% for including old binary
data (not in the source, but in a seperate checkout to avoid the pain
of grep'ing through binary data e.g. --with-glibc-data).

Where are the distro's getting the tzdata from?

Cheers,
Carlos.