Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] Makefile: search for GNU date

27 Aug 2015


      On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 10:13:49 AM, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
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The SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH mechanism for reproducible builds requires the GNU
variant of date.
Why does it require the GNU date ?
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Respect this and search it, error on missing GNU date.
Wouldn't it make more sense to fix the code to NOT depend on GNU extensions ?
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Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann andreas.devel@googlemail.com
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Best regards,
Marek Vasut