On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:17:03PM -0700, Craig Mohrman wrote:
> I'm in the process of fixing:
> 
> 6518266 remove uses of __DATE__ / __TIME__ from perl
> 
> so to make life easier for wsdiff and patch creators.
> 
> Perl accesses the compilers __DATE__ and __TIME__ and
> puts that into the library libperl.so.
> So every compile of perl yields a new __DATE__ and __TIME__
> giving possible false positives from wsdiff.
> 
> perlbug (a perl script) also contains a date inside it.
> 
> I was thinking of using a fixed point in time, say solaris fcs,
> to just set these variables but these times need to
> be updated when real changes happens, or not.
> I guess wsdiff can do its job of detecting real binary
> or script changes and act accordingly.
> 
> Could use some ideas and feedback here.
> 
> This build date of perl shows up with perl -V:
> $ perl -V | grep Compiled
>   Compiled at May 28 2011 20:30:29

What about to completely remove such line? Why do we need a date of compilation
printed?

-- 
Marcel Telka
RPE, Systems
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