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gcc/ChangeLog:
2016-05-13 Eduard Sanou <dhole@openmailbox.org>
* doc/cppenv.texi: Note that the `%s` in `date` is a non-standard
extension.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/cppenv.texi b/gcc/doc/cppenv.texi
index e958e93..8cefd52 100644
--- a/src/gcc/doc/cppenv.texi
+++ b/src/gcc/doc/cppenv.texi
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ main input file is omitted.
@end ifclear
@item SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
-
If this variable is set, its value specifies a UNIX timestamp to be
used in replacement of the current date and time in the @code{__DATE__}
and @code{__TIME__} macros, so that the embedded timestamps become
@@ -89,8 +88,9 @@ reproducible.
The value of @env{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH} must be a UNIX timestamp,
defined as the number of seconds (excluding leap seconds) since
-01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 represented in ASCII, identical to the output of
-@samp{@command{date +%s}}.
+01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 represented in ASCII; identical to the output of
+@samp{@command{date +%s}} on GNU/Linux and other systems that support the
+@code{%s} extension in the @code{date} command.
The value should be a known timestamp such as the last modification
time of the source or package and it should be set by the build
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