Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> writes: > As far as I can tell, the date command on Solaris 10 (cfarm210) and 11 > (cfarm211) does not support any way to print a specified date value. So > I inserted a fallback to perl -e 'print scalar > gmtime($SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)' if the date commands fail. > > If Perl isn't available either, mdate-sh gives a warning and falls back > to using the mtime of the given file.
That sounds like a good solution to me. > I don't mind just ignorning that platform. > > Not supporting gnulib-tool is one thing, but a lot of people still build > and use Solaris 10. We still get bug reports for Automake from people > running it there. Might as well keep mdate-sh working there, since it > was easy to do. > > Below is the important part of the patch, and the new file. > I also threw in a warning if more than one file is specified on the > command line, instead of silently ignoring anything after the first. > Hopefully no one's build actually passes multiple files. > > Anyway ... closing this bug, with fingers crossed. This was the last > change I intended to make before the release. Just have to finalize the > Algol 68 naming. --thanks, karl. Sounds good to me. I had assumed most people use Solaris 11, but I didn't notice that 'date' doesn't work there too. Thanks, Collin
