Hello:
could you help with this issue?
BTW: code compile fine, (FlightGear, PLIB, SimGear).
Linux: SUSE 7.2 (quite nice) and TNT2 base video card.
Andre
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Subject: Re: FlightGear-0.7.8.
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:20:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andre,
I'm not sure I have time to look into this right now. Would you
consider posting your question to our devel mailing list? Durk can be
found there for sure.
http://www.flightgear.org/mail.html
Thanks,
Curt.
Andre Gompel writes:
> Noah:
> I have successfully compiled FG 0.7.8, and hit a snag: it does not run.
> It fails (exit) in the SimGear-0.0.16 code, file
> simgear/timing/lowleveltime.cxx at line 347 with the message "Timezone
> reading failed".
>
> I did look at the code: the problem is not immediatly obvious, and before I
> get deeply in it, may appreciate some advises, if you can, including how to
> debug the whole thing, and maybe where to look.
> BTW: would you have Durk Talsma email address?
>
> Thanks.
> Andre
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------- Offending code.
>
> if (use_fgtzfile)
> return;
> // The default behaviour of the originale tzset_internal (int always,
> char* tz)
> // function is to set up a default timezone, in any casetz file_read()
> fails // Currently this leads to problems, because it modidifies the system
> timezone
> // and not the local aircraft timezone, contained in FlightGear. I could
> adapt
> // this in future versions of this code, but doubt whether this is what
> we really
> // want. So right now, exit when timezone information reading failed.
> // Guess I'll change that to something like 12 * (FG_LON / 180.0)
> //
> // For now, I'll leave it like this.
>
> else
> {
> printf ("Timezone reading failed \n");
> exit(1);
> }
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> About me: a software enginner, proficient with C and a pilot.
> Worked on a "large" flight simulator. (All Unix/SGI)
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