27 Aug
2015
27 Aug
'15
11:01 a.m.
Hi Marek,
On 08/27/2015 10:28 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 10:13:49 AM, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
The SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH mechanism for reproducible builds requires the GNU variant of date.
Why does it require the GNU date ?
Cause of the -d switch. It is used in GNU date variants to set the time to print the string from. On the other hand *BSD variants use it to set the DST flag.
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 ?
That would be great, but so we need to check for the tool and use the right switches depending on that. I think forcing the user to provide the right tool here is Ok.
Best regards
Andreas