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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:28:47 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] Makefile: search for GNU date
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On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 10:13:49 AM, Andreas Bie?mann 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 Bie?mann <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut