Jim Meyering wrote: > You're welcome to push that. Pushed it.
> I noticed that it provides the additional benefit > of making the generated getdate.c file read-only. Huh? It does not do that for me, in a testdir made with "gnulib-tool --create-testdir". I guess you have something in the coreutils Makefiles or in 'bootstrap' that makes generated files read-only. Bruno