[SA-exim] Installation problems

Marc MERLIN marc at merlins.org
Thu Mar 18 10:36:44 PST 2004


On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:33:30AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> >   echo "char *version=\"`cat version` (built `date -R`)\";" > sa-exim.h
> >   date: illegal option -- R
> >   usage:  date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
> >           date [-u] [+format]
> >           date -a [-]sss[.fff]
> >   *** Error code 1
> >   make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `sa-exim.h'
> > 
> > Okay I can remove the '-R' option but I am assuming this won't break
> > anything that looks for the date? What is '-R' supposed to do?
> 
> Ah, yeah, I keep forgetting there are still systems with non GNU fileutils

Fixed in CVS if you have GNU fileutils or a single byte locale

sa-exim.h: sa-exim.c version
        echo "char *version=\"`cat version` (built `date -R 2>/dev/null || date`
)\";" > sa-exim.h

Marc
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