Potential issues with the snippet to parse SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in C

[Pol Dellaiera]

Hello again,

The build issues has been fixed, feel free to have a look at the PR, any feedback is very welcome.

Thanks.

On 1/20/24 13:57, Pol Dellaiera wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I made a pull request for Nix at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/282329
> 
> There are many issue while building it (see the log in the PR), but in the end, it seems to build fine.
> 
> On 1/19/24 22:21, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:03:17PM -0800, Chris Lamb wrote:
>>>> I was wondering... maybe I could write a library, libgetnum, and add
>>>> these functions there. That way, all those code bases in Debian that
>>>> have the problem we found in gettime() could be fixed easily by just
>>>> calling getnum() internally as I did here.
>>>>
>>>> I also fixed so many other hidden bugs in this PR, that other
>>>> projects could benefit from such a library.
>>>
>>> Speaking just for myself, I worry that most codebases won't rush to
>>> introduce a new library dependency "just" to parse this value (even if
>>> they should), but no doubt we should iron out any problems in the
>>> snippet regardless.
>>
>> I've finished writing the library:
>> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/alx/liba2i.git/>
>>
>> At least to a point that it works.  I still need to tweak the build
>> system a little bit to produce release tarballs; but I'll leave that for
>> when someone shows real interest in packaging it.
>>
>> Have a lovely day,
>> Alex
>>
> 

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