[M3devel] Looking for CM3 Tinderbox regression test participants, was: Re: M3 concerns

[Tony Hosking]

No, I mean date '+%s', which just gives a raw time-stamp.  date -u +'% 
Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S works just fine.

I don't manage this machine so I'd like to avoid installing non- 
standard tools (if only so they don't get tangled up in the  
regression testing which should be done on a "vanilla" platform).

On Feb 18, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:
>
>> Solaris does not have %s for date -- we need an alternative for that
>> usage in tinderbox-build.sh.
>
> You mean as in date -u +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S?
>
> It's used quite often:
> % grep -l date scripts/regression/*.sh
> scripts/regression/defs.sh
> scripts/regression/tinderbox-build.sh
> scripts/regression/tinderbox-status.sh
> scripts/regression/update_changelog.sh
> scripts/regression/update_m3tests.sh
> scripts/regression/update_pkg_status.sh
> scripts/regression/update_snapshot_status.sh
>
> Would it be possible, as a work-around, to install the GNU tools
> (date, sed, awk etc.)?
>
> I should have known something will fail on Solaris, because the
> standard command line utilities they ship are still bug-compatible
> to those from the 80s :-/ We've had lots of problems with them
> at one of our customers, too, and just installed openpkg as a stable
> environment. But I think GNU command line utilties should also
> be available as a Solaris package.
>
> If this is the only problem or if you cannot install an alternative
> environment, we'll have to do something about date. I'll make some
> tests later when I have access to a SPARC.
>
> Olaf
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