Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

>> > Second, I don't see how doing this in only loaddefs.el will help make
>> > an Emacs build "reproducible":
>> 
>> This is obviously the first patch of a series.  It does not make Emacs
>> itself bit-reproducible, but it makes Emacs packages bit-reproducible.
>> 
>> See <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00728.html>
>> for more info.
>
> I'd prefer to have the whole series, to see where this is going, and
> then commit them in one go.  But that's me.  John?

I should point out that there’s currently no other patch in the series
because we haven’t gotten there yet.  ;-)

We were looking at making autoload generation deterministic as a first
step.  For us this fixes non-determinism issues in ~37 packages.

Ludo’.