[Quilt-dev] Re: remove GNU date dependency [Was: quilt mail broken with sed 3.02]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Here is a patch for a perl date wrapper (my first perl script!), I hope you
> can commit this in time for 0.43...  with it, I can `./configure 
> --without-date'
> and have the testsuite complete successfully.

[[snip]]

> Index: quilt-HEAD/configure.ac
> ===================================================================
> --- quilt-HEAD.orig/configure.ac
> +++ quilt-HEAD/configure.ac
> @@ -82,6 +82,21 @@ duplicates.  You can download GNU coreut
>  fi
>  
>  QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(DATE, date, [gdate date])
> +
> +if test -z "$INTERNAL_DATE"; then
> +  AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $DATE --rfc-822 works])
> +  if date --rfc-822 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        ^^^^
D'oh!  s/date/$DATE/

Cheers,
        Gary.
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