Re: Cross-distro reproducible build patches

[Ludovic Courtès]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> … but I think a number things are written as snippets rather than actual
>> patches.
>
> I think most of the snippets are trivial messing with the gcc __DATE__
> and __TIME__ macros. I dug into GCC source code the other day and found
> this commit:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=dfa5c0d3f3e23e4fdb14857a42de376d9ff8601c
>
> Apparently gcc will respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in these functions from
> version 7 onwards. We could consider backporting it.

Definitely, that’s what I say to myself every time I write one of these
snippets.  :-)

Would you like to port it to 5.x in ‘core-updates’?  I’m pretty sure
Debian has already ported it actually.

Ludo’.