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

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:

> Yeah, perhaps I should install gdate.

Is that acceptable then, or would you prefer that we write a
small program (in C or M3) which only prints the seconds since the
start of the epoch for the sake of tinderbox?

Olaf

> 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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