[Pkg-pascal-devel] help needed

[Paul Gevers]

Now including the patch...

On 20-11-15 14:02, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On 19-11-15 23:06, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>> Your patch looks fine, but I don't know if upstream will like adding
>> this unit in the dependency of the compiler. Can't you pass the date
>> into another format?
> 
> In the mean time I managed to get a patch working which indeed did just
> that. However, I still would like to get SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to be
> supported, because that is what is spec'ed, so I think that it is the
> only variable that makes a chance of being accepted by upstream.
> 
> For review, I added my current patch. I saw somewhere¹ that you can
> change the date reported by Date via a "With TS do" construction. So I
> think it would be great if we can convert SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in
> fpcsrc/compiler/scanner.pas to fpc time before calling getdatestr.
> 
> I haven't tried if I have the same issue with the DateUtils unit in this
> file, but I expect the underlaying problem to be the same. I will still
> try to figure this out, so thank Abou for the idea.
> 
> Paul
> ¹ http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/timestamptodatetime.html
> 
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