Bug #76044 [Opn->Csd]: 'date: illegal option -- -' in ./configure on FreeBSD

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76044&edit=1 ID: 76044 Updated by: ab@php.net Reported by: mgorny at gentoo dot org Summary: 'date: illegal option -- -' in ./configure on FreeBSD -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: *Compile Issues Operating System: Gentoo/FreeBSD 11.1 PHP Version: master-Git-2018-03-02 (Git) Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Automatic comment on behalf of ab Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=60ac2558974bf63a5f07664a53e1502835a24998 Log: Fixed bug #76044 'date: illegal option -- -' in ./configure on FreeBSD Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-03-02 14:40:47] mgorny at gentoo dot org Description: ------------ When running the configure script, I see the following error message from underlying tools: Configuring TSRM checking for stdarg.h... (cached) yes checking for sigprocmask... (cached) yes checking how many arguments gethostbyname_r() takes... (cached) six date: illegal option -- - usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format] Apparently, the following code uses GNU-specific 'date' tool syntax that does not work on *BSD (FWICS, it also won't work on MacOS X): PHP_BUILD_DATE=date --utc --date="@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:-$(date +%s)}" +%Y-%m-%d The *BSD version of 'date' does not support long options at all. The following would work for the current date: PHP_BUILD_DATE=date -u +%Y-%m-%d However, I don't know of any portable replacement for --date. FWICS, the *BSD version has '-r' option that takes UNIX epoch timestamp but the GNU version uses '-r' for something else. One possible option would be to replace SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH with verbatim Y-m-d date, and use e.g.: PHP_BUILD_DATE=${SOURCE_DATE:-$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d)} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76044&edit=1