libjava configuration problems

Wed Jan 24 08:26:00 GMT 2001

>> I'm trying to get libjava working on an arm-netbsd target and have run 
> into the following problem whilst building libjava.
>> Autoconf has a test for a variable called timezone, which it tests with 
>> AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <time.h>], [long z2 = timezone;],
> [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_TIMEZONE)
> AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)],
> [AC_MSG_RESULT(no)])])
>>> Unfortunately this test passes on NetBSD when it should fail. timezone 
> exists, but is a function not a variable. When g++ comes to compile 
> java/lang/natSystem.cc we then get a build failure
>> /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs/libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc: In static 
> member
> function `static java::lang::String* 
> java::lang::System::getSystemTimeZone()':
> /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs/libjava/java/lang/natSystem.cc:251: cannot 
> convert
> `char*()(int, int)' to `long int' in assignment
>>> Any ideas how to fix the test for this?

Actually, this is wrong, the test did fail. So why does natSystem.cc 
still try to use 'timezone'?
R.