Re: mdate-sh broken on darwin

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Feb 6, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> I notice that libtool-1.5.12 does not use the version of
> mdate-sh that comes with Automake 1.9.4.  It would be nice to
> try this one first.

Sigh, I screwed up with the version of automake I used at first and 
switched, forgetting to manually clean the tree in between. libtool's 
bootstrap needs a --force in the flags for automake to protect it from 
idiots like me :/

> If this does not help, please run it with `sh -x' so we can see
> what happens.

Well, the date format output from ls is the problem: day month 
time/year. Every other system I have tried uses month day time/year 
when LC_ALL, LC_TIME etc are set to C, Mac OS X 10.3.x is different in 
that it always prints day month time/year.

The mdate-sh script expects, probably rightly, that the format is 
always month day time/year. I tried a couple of versions of mdate-sh, 
including the one from 1.9.4 and they all give "month time/year 
filename" as the output :(

Not really your bug, it is apple's fault.

mdate-sh can probably be modified to detect that ls is broken in this 
way, shouldn't be too hard even, I'll look at it if you like.

Peter