Allow to override build date with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH #265
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in order to make builds reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ for the definition of this variable. This date call works with many variants of date. Also use UTC to be independent of timezone. This patch was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.
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Allow to override build date with
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCHin order to make builds reproducible.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good
and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
for the definition of this variable.
This date call works with many variants of date.
Also use
-u(UTC) to be independent of timezone.An alternative approach would be to drop the date here.
This PR was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.