Re: [Bug-apl] [Reproducible builds] add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Santiago,

I will look into this. Would it be acceptable to have a ./configure 
option that
prevents the setting of the build date (so the build date would be 
roughly the
time when the GNU APL sources were checked in rather than the time when
GNU APL was ./configure'd)?

I suppose this issue will come up for other projects as well, so maybe a
common solution would be worthwhile to be investigated.

Best Regards,
Jürgen Sauermann
GNU APL


On 12/04/2017 11:53 PM, Santiago Torres-Arias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a member of the Arch Linux Security team working on the reproducible
> builds initiative. Right now, apl compiles almost reproducibly, with the
> only caveat of embedding some time-based information into a header file.
> It would be nice if this could be overriden with an environment variable
> (or stripped out whatsoever).
>
> I'm attaching a patch on how I believe this could be achieved.
>
> Thanks!
> -Santiago.