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[Levente <leventelist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vladimir,


I test the new stuff later today. Thanks for your efforts!

Lev

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:56 PM, <gedau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov@xxxxxxxxx) [via
> geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxx] 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
>