On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:30:26 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reproducible builds are all the vogue. The JDK has been making great strides
> in getting there, but still has some way to go. However, to get as close as
> possible, some special configuration is needed.
>
> This has been "tribal knowledge" of a few persons in the build team. It needs
> to be properly documented to help other users wanting to create reproducible
> builds of the JDK.
Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).
doc/building.md line 1551:
> 1549:
> 1550: **Hint:** If your build environment already sets `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`,
> you can
> 1551: propagate this using `--with-source-date=$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)`.
Shouldn't this example be $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, or at least ${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}
as this would most likely be run in a shell? Or are you trying to send in the
make variable reference verbatim to be evaluated in the makefiles?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6279
