[Zope] tzname unknown?

[John Eikenberry]

Opps... forgot to mention that this bug only shows up with libc5 systems.
If you use glibc2/libc6, you don't have to worry.

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, John Eikenberry wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> 
> > ImportError: cannot import name tzname
> > 
> > Is this a bug in python 1.5.2?
> 
> Yes, it's a python/libc related bug. The bug is in timemodules.c and deals
> with testing for the libc version. Currently the fix (its still being
> tested on all systems) is to alter line 619 in timemodule.c (and
> recompile, of course)... 
> 
> from:
> 
> #if defined(HAVE_TZNAME) && !defined(__GNU_LIBRARY__)
> 
> to:
> 
> #if defined(HAVE_TZNAME) && !defined(__GLIBC__)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
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