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Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads. |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:11:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Philipp Stephani <address@hidden> skribis:
> I'm interested in reproducible builds as well; do you already have some
> design ideas how to tackle this problem? So far I've found three areas
> where Emacs itself builds something that could be reproducible (dumping,
> generating autoload files, byte compilation), and a couple of data items
> that cause irreproducibility (host names, timestamps, absolute paths).
There are two things at stake here: making Emacs builds reproducible,
and making Emacs produce deterministic output.
If autoload generation is non-deterministic, then every elisp package
ends up being non-deterministic. So fixing it is a net win, and that’s
the reason why we started with this one.
The other issues affect only Emacs itself. Timestamps and the likes are
easily addressed I guess. Unexec is likely another story, though.
Ludo’.
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/29
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/29
Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.,
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