[PATCH] Add --disable-timezone configure option

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 04:37, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
> A number of Linux distributions ship timezone data and utilities as a
> separate package and patch glibc not to build and install these files.
> This adds a --disable-timezone configuration option that removes the
> need for such patching.

This patch is plainly wrong.  The files from glibc don't have to be
installed, that's right, and should be changed.  I just never run
'make install' myself anymore which is why this hasn't been changed so
far.

But the directory cannot be skipped because zic is needed.  The
upstream one shouldn't be used since changes to that code is not
audited.  Yes, yes, /deliberate/ changes to the format are rare but
they happen and unwanted changes can also happen.  This is why zic etc
should stay.

I don't regularly updated the timezone files regularly because they
are only needed for testing.  For that old versions are just fine.

I'll add a patch to not install the files.