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

[Paul Eggert]

Philipp Stephani wrote:
> I'd prefer to have
> this configurable at runtime so that a single Emacs binary can be used to
> produce both deterministic and non-deterministic outpu

I'd rather not have Emacs's behavior depend on yet another environment variable. 
There are already too many such environment variables and they are a maintenance 
and configuration pain.

Instead, I suggest making it a configure-time option, e.g.,

  ./configure --enable-deterministic-build

I suppose Emacs code could also set the new Elisp deterministic-build variable 
that you're suggesting, to override the configure-time default. But not an 
environment variable, please.