[Reproducible-builds] [RFC PATCH] Makefile: search for GNU date

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 10:13:49 AM, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
> The SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH mechanism for reproducible builds requires the GNU
> variant of date.

Why does it require the GNU date ?

> Respect this and search it, error on missing GNU date.

Wouldn't it make more sense to fix the code to NOT depend on GNU extensions ?

> Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel at googlemail.com>

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut