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

[Tony Hosking]

Yeah, perhaps I should install gdate.

On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:34 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're probably talking about a different problem than I thought,
> at least
>
> % date -u +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'
> 2008-02-18-10-00-34
> blnsce005 [/advantage/sm/yd/sdf/sm/impl] demx0x65
> % type date
> date is hashed (/bin/date)
> blnsce005 [/advantage/sm/yd/sdf/sm/impl] demx0x65
> % uname -a
> SunOS blnsce005 5.9 Generic_118558-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490
>
> seems to be working for me on Solaris.
>
> Ah, I've found it now: date +%s.
> Michael says it's not possible to do that with Sun's data.
> Openpkg for example comes with gdate, which understands the %s:
>
> % gdate "+%s"
> 1203329509
> blnsce005 [/advantage/sm/yd/sdf/sm/impl] demx0x65
> % type gdate
> gdate is hashed (/home/nightmar/openpkg-2.5/bin/gdate)
>
> gdate is part of the GNU coreutils. You can find it at
>
> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s10pkgs_download.xml
>
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc10.html#coreutils
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Olaf
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