Hi, This week I have been working on patching toolchain packages in relation to the proposed timestamp standardization.
I have patched gcc to read the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable and in case it is set, change the behavior of the macro __DATE__ and __TIME__ substitution: instead of writing the local date/time, the one provided by the env variable is used. I also wrote a patch to replace the behavior of the __TIMESTAMP__ macro (which embeds the source file mtime during the preprocessing step) to use the timestamp from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH only if it is older than the file mtime (that is, clamping the timestamp). The later patch has not been sent yet as it feels more intrusive. I sent the patch for __DATE__ and __TIME__ to the gcc upstream mailing list (gcc-patches): https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-06/msg02210.html There's been some discussion and some ideas from the gcc people, but no maintainer has replied yet (only maintainers can decide if a patch gets accepted or not). Since other other people in the project are adopting the use of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to normalize timestamps, I wrote a patch for debhelper (a Debian package used during package builds) to export the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH with the latests debian/changelog entry timestamp. I also added a change to debhelper to help reproducible builds which consists on setting TZ=UTC (that is setting the exported variable defining the timezone to UTC so that during bluilds a normalized timezone is found). The debhelper commit can be found here: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/debhelper.git/commit/?h=pu/reproducible_builds&id=005841b88b715a29a2279265f2fc2b31d3389344 After committing the change, I built the package and uploaded it to the reproducible repository so that it can be used in our custom toolchain and test it on jenkins. I updated two wiki entries: - info about gcc patch regarding the C timestamp macro issue: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsFromCPPMacros - info about debhelp update https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/ExperimentalToolchain For next week I plan on continue looking at toolchain packages that could implement the use of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (mostly documentation generators such as docbook-xsl) and write patches for them Best regards, Dhole
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