Index: alpine-2.20/alpine/Makefile.am
===================================================================
--- alpine-2.20.orig/alpine/Makefile.am
+++ alpine-2.20/alpine/Makefile.am
@@ -48,5 +48,5 @@ AM_LDFLAGS = `cat @top_srcdir@/c-client/
 CLEANFILES = date.c
 
 date.c:
-	echo "char datestamp[]="\"`date`\"";" > date.c
-	echo "char hoststamp[]="\"`hostname`\"";" >> date.c
+	echo 'char datestamp[]="today";' >  date.c
+	echo 'char hoststamp[]="sand";' >> date.c
Index: alpine-2.20/alpine/Makefile.in
===================================================================
--- alpine-2.20.orig/alpine/Makefile.in
+++ alpine-2.20/alpine/Makefile.in
@@ -888,8 +888,8 @@ uninstall-am: uninstall-binPROGRAMS
 
 
 date.c:
-	echo "char datestamp[]="\"`date`\"";" > date.c
-	echo "char hoststamp[]="\"`hostname`\"";" >> date.c
+	echo 'char datestamp[]="today";' >  date.c
+	echo 'char hoststamp[]="sand";' >> date.c
 
 # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.
 # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.