Re: failing CI builds

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I got the following answer:
>> 
>>   METAFONT supports SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable.  Try
>> 
>>     export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=10000
>>     export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1
>> 
>>   I think MetaPost does not support the variables.
> 
> I already tried this yesterday and it worked well for getting the
> same timestamps (I just exported a constant value in my shell).
> However, I'm still seeing differences in the generated fonts and
> also in the .svg files (which are non-binary, so diff actually shows
> me what changes).

Well, while Metafont has SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support, Metapost hasn't
(yet – this will change in a few days so that the next TeXLive version
will contain it).

Recent versions of FontForge should have support too, BTW.


    Werner