manpages: Set date to release date instead of build date

This should also help distributions working towards reproducible builds.

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9f90891..160c523 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ dist:
 	cp src/deps.mk /tmp/feh-${VERSION}/src/deps.mk
 	sed -i 's/^VERSION ?= .*$$/VERSION ?= ${VERSION}/' \
 		/tmp/feh-${VERSION}/config.mk
+	sed -i 's/^MAN_DATE ?= .*$$/MAN_DATE ?= ${MAN_DATE}/' \
+		/tmp/feh-${VERSION}/config.mk
 	tar -C /tmp -cjf ../feh-${VERSION}.tar.bz2 feh-${VERSION}
 	rm -r /tmp/feh-${VERSION}
 
diff --git a/config.mk b/config.mk
index a7356c8..abcb6d8 100644
--- a/config.mk
+++ b/config.mk
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ else
 	MAN_EXIF = disabled
 endif
 
+MAN_DATE ?= ${shell date '+%B %d, %Y'}
 
 # Uncomment this to use dmalloc
 #CFLAGS += -DWITH_DMALLOC
diff --git a/man/Makefile b/man/Makefile
index 1927963..65f2bc2 100644
--- a/man/Makefile
+++ b/man/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ all: ${TARGETS}
 .pre.1:
 	sed \
 	-e 's/\$$VERSION\$$/${VERSION}/g' \
-	-e 's/\$$DATE\$$/'"$$(date '+%B %d, %Y')"/g \
+	-e 's/\$$DATE\$$/${MAN_DATE}/g' \
 	-e 's/\$$MAN_CURL\$$/${MAN_CURL}/' \
 	-e 's/\$$MAN_DEBUG\$$/${MAN_DEBUG}/' \
 	-e 's/\$$MAN_EXIF\$$/${MAN_EXIF}/' \