Re: 'cal' month field, 1.3.7*, libc5.2.18

Michael Riepe (riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de)
Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:31:17 +0200


From: Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com>
> James L. McGill wrote:
>
> > The 'cal' function:
> >
> > # cal
> > (null) 1996
>
> I think it's a libc issue. I don't know why this happens, but I found that
> simply recompiling "cal" fixed the problem for me.

I'm afraid it's not only cal(1). The reason for this is that some of
the LC_* constants in <locale.h> have changed in libc-5.2.0 (and
they're still "wrong" in 5.3.9).

Michael.

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