[syslog-ng] fsf address, embedded date

Peter Czanik czanik at balabit.hu
Wed Aug 24 15:02:43 CEST 2011


Hello,

On 08/18/2011 05:15 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>
>> There is another one I usually fix with a patch:
>>
>> syslog-ng.x86_64: W: file-contains-date-and-time /sbin/syslog-ng
>> Your file uses  __DATE and __TIME__ this causes the package to rebuild when
>> not needed
> This, I would fix in a different way: make it optional
> (--with-compile-date) or something similar. I'll prepare a patch for
> this aswell.
I think compiling in compile date is quite useful, so leaving it enabled
as default and adding a --without-compile-date would be more
appropriate. At least AFAIK, only SuSE finds it problematic.
Bye,

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Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
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