From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:32:26 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/22] Remove the DATE variable In-Reply-To: <871ungi39o.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <3a993084fda775e7a2c37371225c124fd620a244.1334673910.git.thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <201204211505.51141.arnout@mind.be> <871ungi39o.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20120422173226.590ca81a@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:23:15 +0200, Peter Korsgaard a ?crit : > I know we have been (are?) using it at work to add some info about the > build date and name some files with the date. > > Chances are others might have been doing the same, so I'm hessitating > about removing it (which is why I didn't commit it right away). It > doesn't really cost us much to keep it (single line). Well, it's just that I don't very much like to have unused variables here and there. One way to make it useful is for example to store the build date into some file in the target filesystem. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com