Re: Making javadoc reproducible

[Gábor Boskovits]

Björn Höfling <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont:
2018. okt. 12., P, 20:01):
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:35:51 +0200
> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 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...
>
> Number 2 sounds good, and why not giving it a try to place it upstream?

Ok, i will go for it, and try to get it upsreamed for jdk8 and jdk11.

>
> Björn