From 57f911973ae5e9936fdfae994db6c900ef051c91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: q66 <q66@chimera-linux.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 17:55:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] meson: try BSD-style stat(1) syntax when failing mtime check

The system may be using a stat(1) implementation that follows
BSD-style syntax. Try that as a fallback, but do fail for real
if that also fails.
---
 meson.build | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 7fb845622d..8d312dd70c 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -775,7 +775,13 @@ if time_epoch <= 0
         if time_epoch == ''
                 NEWS = files('NEWS')
                 time_epoch = run_command(stat, '-c', '%Y', NEWS,
-                                         check : true).stdout()
+                                         check : false)
+                if time_epoch.returncode() != 0
+                        # If the above fails, maybe the stat(1) uses BSD-style syntax
+                        time_epoch = run_command(stat, '-f', '%m', NEWS,
+                                                 check : true)
+                endif
+                time_epoch = time_epoch.stdout()
         endif
         time_epoch = time_epoch.strip().to_int()
 endif