Re: Making javadoc reproducible

[Gábor Boskovits]

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
12., P, 19:00):
>
> Hello guix,
>
> I've tracked down the javadoc timestamp problem.
> There is a command line flag for javadoc (notimestamp), that disables
> generating the comment in the docs that contains the timestamp.
> Currently I see two ways forward:
> 1. Track down the calls to javadoc, and add the flag to all calls.
> 2. Write a simple patch to make javadoc behave as if notimestamp was
> specified, whenever
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is defined.
> I do not think, that the patch produced by 2 is upstreamable, but it
> seems much less work. WDYT?

Also we can simply turn off the timestamp generation unconditionally...