From 174fbd5f3b2f286cf06e58787853db6b8f0f5b35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ricardo Wurmus Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:52:42 +0200 Subject: gnu: r-minimal: Remove timestamp from man page. * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-minimal)[arguments]: Adjust "build-reproducibly" phase to prevent the bundled help2man script from printing the current month and year. --- gnu/packages/statistics.scm | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'gnu') diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm index 1fe82d5d99..a6c1f046dc 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm @@ -185,6 +185,14 @@ be output in text, PostScript, PDF or HTML.") (substitute* "src/library/tools/Makefile.in" (("(install_package_description\\(.*\"')\\)\"" line prefix) (string-append prefix ", builtStamp='1970-01-01')\""))) + + ;; R bundles an older version of help2man, which does not respect + ;; SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. We cannot just use the latest help2man, + ;; because that breaks a test. + (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding "ISO-8859-1")) + (substitute* "tools/help2man.pl" + (("my \\$date = strftime \"%B %Y\", localtime" line) + (string-append line " 1")))) #t)) (add-before 'configure 'set-default-pager ;; Set default pager to "cat", because otherwise it is "false", -- cgit v1.2.3