On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:29:55AM +0200, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
The SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH mechanism for reproducible builds require some date(1) with -d switch to print the relevant date and time strings of another point of time.
In other words it requires some date(1) that behaves like the GNU date(1) [1]. The BSD date(1) [2] on the other hand has the same switch but with a different meaning.
Respect this and check the date(1) abilities before usage, error on non working version. Use the well known pre- and suffixes for the GNU variant of a tool on *BSD hosts to search for a working date(1) version.
[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/date.1.html [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=date
Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann andreas.devel@googlemail.com
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!