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 _______________________________________________ userland-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/userland-discuss
