make broken in ports when DATE environment variable set

[Jez Hancock]

I've just gone to run the weekly 'portupgrade -ari' and found that the
make process is failing anywhere in /usr/ports.  An example of the
output is:

[8:28:01] root at users /usr/ports# portupgrade vim
--->  Upgrading 'vim-6.3.16' to 'vim-6.3.45' (editors/vim)
--->  Building '/usr/ports/editors/vim' with make flags: -DNO_GUI
===>  Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2_1
===>  Cleaning for libtool-1.5.10
===>  Cleaning for vim-6.3.45
20041211: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/vim.

Manually changing to /usr/ports/editors/vim and issuing a 'make clean
&& make' command fails with the same error message as above.

Anyway with some digging about I found this entry in /usr/ports/CHANGES:

20041209:
AUTHOR: portmgr at FreeBSD.org
  The following changes were committed:

  * Define new macros: DATE, FMT, MKTEMP, OBJDUMP, and use
    command macro SORT.

By coincidence I have a DATE variable set in my shell rc file and it
appears to be this that is stopping the make process in the ports
tree.  Issuing 'unsetenv DATE' prior to running 'make' in the ports
tree actually fixes the problem.

My question then is whether this is something that is known or whether
I should send a problem report or what?  I've had a quick search for
PRs relating to the problem but couldn't see anything.  I can live
with having to run 'unsetenv DATE' any time I need to modify the
ports, but perhaps there are wider consequences of this problem?

Cheers.

-- 
Jez Hancock
 - System Administrator / PHP Developer

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