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

[Tony Hosking]

Yes, acceptable.  I'll install gdate.

On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> 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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