This tool isn't evolving particularly much at the moment, so the
additional value of knowing when a particular version was built
doesn't give much extra value.
Normally, a stripped build of gendef (on Linux) produces a binary
with the exact same hash each time. Using __DATE__ breaks that
reproducibility, if rebuilt on different days. It is possible to
avoid the issue by setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to a fixed value when
building, but in this case, I think the printed date doesn't add much
value, so we could simply remove it. Most other similar tools don't
contain such printouts.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <mar...@martin.st>
---
mingw-w64-tools/gendef/src/gendef.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mingw-w64-tools/gendef/src/gendef.c
b/mingw-w64-tools/gendef/src/gendef.c
index 4aa9a42ed..92ba50624 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-tools/gendef/src/gendef.c
+++ b/mingw-w64-tools/gendef/src/gendef.c
@@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ show_usage (void)
" By default, the output files are named after their DLL
counterparts\n"
" gendef MYDLL.DLL Produces MYDLL.def\n"
" gendef - MYDLL.DLL Prints the exports to stdout\n");
- fprintf (stderr, "\nBuilt on %s\n", __DATE__);
fprintf (stderr, "\nReport bugs to
<mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net>\n");
exit (0);
}
--
2.34.1
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