Re: [nmh-workers] Reproducible build patch

[Ken Hornstein]

>It determines the style of date(1) to invoke without relying on user
>input, then when that's known it invokes it again with the desired
>number of seconds but without discarding stderr in case of problems, and
>the existing `set -e' would exit on an error.

It occurs to me that feature tests are exactly what autoconf has been
designed to do, so maybe we should put the smarts in there?

--Ken