On 2016-01-24 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > On Sat 2016-01-23 16:52:09 -0500, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: >> While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed >> that libgcrypt20 could not be built reproducibly.
>> The attached patch adds support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to set the value >> of BUILD_TIMESTAMP defined in the configure script. Once applied, >> libgcrypt20 is nearly reproducible in our current experimental >> framework—their might be remaining timestamps in the PDF documentation. > Thanks for fixing this, Lunar. > fwiw, libgcrypt upstream is the same folks as libgpg-error upstream. In > response to concerns about reproducible builds, libgpg-error 1.20 > switched to not embedding the build timestamp at all upstream by > default. > Perhaps they'd be open to the same approach for libgcrypt if it were > proposed. [...] Hello, FYI this had already happened on libgcrypt master branch when this bug was submitted, Werner has already done this. http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=a785cc3db0c4e8eb8ebbf784b833a40d2c42ec3e cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
