From aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca  Wed Apr 28 17:35:11 2004
From: aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca (George N. White III)
Date: Wed Apr 28 17:35:37 2004
Subject: [Rd] is.na(valid_date) too often true on SGI MIPS (PR#6814)
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Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0404281141330.370928@montigo.bio.dfo.ca>

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, George N. White III wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorry, but this is completely unreproducible, and the second you say
> > > is true you quote as false.

I apologize for wasting your time.

The reason "make check" failed is because I somehow thought that SGI had
adopted Arthur Olson's tz data <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/> (see also:
<http://cspry.co.uk/computing/Indy_admin/TIMEZONE.html>).

After installing Olson's tz library and data and
adding '-L/usr/local/lib -ltz' to the list of libraries,
"make check" succeeds.

It would be helpful to sprinkle a few reminders of the existence of
Olson's data in the documentation.

--
George N. White III  <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
  Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada


[Rd] is.na(valid_date) too often true on SGI MIPS (PR#6814)
George N. White III