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-rwxr-xr-xconfigure3
-rw-r--r--configure.ac3
-rw-r--r--docs/ChangeLog8
-rw-r--r--docs/HACKING4
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ba08ae70..658b5e1d 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2777,8 +2777,7 @@ case $host_os in *\ *) host_os=`echo "$host_os" | sed 's/ /-/g'`;; esac
# Define below date and version information to be put into man pages etc.
-datemark=20081117
-date=`LANG=C date -d $datemark +'%Y-%m-%d'`
+date=2008-11-17
roff_version=`echo 2.5.3 | sed 's/-/\\-/g'`
# We have to be a bit naughty here and supply options.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a9d305a7..283a9f05 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
# Define below date and version information to be put into man pages etc.
-datemark=20081117
-date=`LANG=C date -d $datemark +'%Y-%m-%d'`
+date=2008-11-17
AC_SUBST(date)dnl
roff_version=`echo AC_PACKAGE_VERSION | sed 's/-/\\-/g'`
AC_SUBST(roff_version)dnl
diff --git a/docs/ChangeLog b/docs/ChangeLog
index 1929a10e..cbc784e3 100644
--- a/docs/ChangeLog
+++ b/docs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Mon Nov 17 19:26:50 GMT 2008 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
+
+ * configure.ac: Now that we use the ISO 8601 date format rather than
+ language-specific date variants, there's no reason to call out to
+ date (using options specific to GNU date) to format the date
+ string, so just hardcode it.
+ * docs/HACKING (Release process): datemark -> date.
+
Mon Nov 17 17:55:35 GMT 2008 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
FreeBSD build fixes.
diff --git a/docs/HACKING b/docs/HACKING
index dc79c41f..8e5103f5 100644
--- a/docs/HACKING
+++ b/docs/HACKING
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ Release process
4. Ensure that docs/NEWS and docs/man-db.lsm are up to date. Commit.
-5. Update the AC_INIT version number and 'datemark' in configure.ac, but
- don't commit yet.
+5. Update the AC_INIT version number and 'date' in configure.ac, but don't
+ commit yet.
6. Run ./release.sh, which will spit out a tarball. Test it.