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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow to override build date with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
- From: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann at suse dot de>
- To: John Darrington <john at darrington dot wattle dot id dot au>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, Linda Zhang <lindasc at qq dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:50:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow to override build date with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
- References: <20181026055927.23012-1-bwiedemann@suse.de> <20181026055927.23012-2-bwiedemann@suse.de> <20181026105405.rp226dfo72v2a5aw@jocasta.intra>
On 26/10/2018 12.54, John Darrington wrote:
> I don't agree that this is an elegant solution to the problem.
>
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is a hack at best, to be used when there is no other
> practical way to solve the problem.
>
> Binutils already has a --enable-deterministic-archives option so we
> should use that instead.
I still would like some nice solution be merged. If you know a better
way, than my patch, I'd like to test that.
enable-deterministic-archives is not even related to this, so may want
to have another look.
Ciao
Bernhard M.