Hi Howard, Yes I'm well aware of the state of Solaris 9 support and we support key components of the OS ourselves. However that doesn't mean that people don't still run it, like we do on some systems yet to be upgraded. (yes we have Sun systems purchased over 15 years ago that are still happily running; the hardware is very reliable; many are well overdue for upgrade though; its a resource/priority thing just look at how many people are running WinXP still) However this issue is a portability of openldap issue, not a OS support/patch thing (the C library in this case is not broken; its doing as the man page says, which doesn't mention %z), and the %z support is only a recent thing in the lifetime of unix (well last ~15 years it started to appear... C99 I think) There will be other legacy OS's that don't support %z too; no idea what ones though. Anyway I've got an (ugly) patch for me to use now and it passes 'make check' on Solaris 9; it was hard to find the cause of the problem though. Ian D On 07/22/15 04:01, Howard Chu wrote: