Vladimir,
I test the new stuff later today. Thanks for your efforts! Lev On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Vladimir Zhbanov ([email protected]) [via > [email protected]] wrote: > > >> Hi, geda users and devs. >> >> Recently, some issues with the FreeBSD port were solved. (This may >> apply to other systems as well.) >> >> The only question suspended is about non-portable 'date -d' >> invocation [1]. As it turns out, compilation works with gnu make >> but breaks with BSD make. >> >> So I believe we have two options: >> - leave it in the current state and recommend users to compile >> geda-gaf using GNU make (I don't like this option) >> - fix the date invocation somehow (I don't know how to >> gracefully do it for all platforms) >> >> Any ideas? >> > > One of my hobby projects is the second generation of a configuration > system (./configure stuff). What I learned from the first generation was > exactly this: you can't trust even the simplest utils will work > consistently across systems. Not even echo. > > My solution is to use C89 for the configuration system, and simply do not > target systems that don't comply with C89. > > In your specific case, a similar trick could work. A C fewliners around > strftime() would be small, simple and reliable. Strftime is C89 for most > features (don't use timezones and you'll be fine). The C code could compile > with $(CC) directly into an executable in one step, without any extra > configuration. > > Regards, > > Igor2 >
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