* Reiner Herrmann (rei...@reiner-h.de) wrote: > Source: automake-1.14 > Version: 1:1.14.1-4 > Severity: wishlist > User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: toolchain > Tags: upstream > X-Debbugs-CC: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Hi! > > While working on Debian's “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have > noticed that the output of mdate-sh (which is part of automake, and > shipped by some upstream source tarballs) can produce different > output depending on the timezone. > Different output of mdate-sh can then lead to further differences > in the build process [2]. > > We already forwarded a patch to automake-patc...@gnu.org, but it > hasn't appeared yet in their mailing list archive (which looks a little > dead with no new mails since January). > The patch [3] fixes the timezone used by mdate-sh to UTC, which will > always produce the same output independent of the timezone of the caller. > > Regards, > Reiner > > [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds > [2]: > https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimezoneVarianceBecauseOfAutomakeMdate > [3]: > https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20150406/001380.html >
-- Eric Dorland <e...@kuroneko.ca> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93
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