On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:30:26 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Reproducible builds are all the vogue. The JDK has been making great strides > in getting there, but still has some way to go. However, to get as close as > possible, some special configuration is needed. > > This has been "tribal knowledge" of a few persons in the build team. It needs > to be properly documented to help other users wanting to create reproducible > builds of the JDK. Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer). doc/building.md line 1551: > 1549: > 1550: **Hint:** If your build environment already sets `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`, > you can > 1551: propagate this using `--with-source-date=$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)`. Shouldn't this example be $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, or at least ${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH} as this would most likely be run in a shell? Or are you trying to send in the make variable reference verbatim to be evaluated in the makefiles? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6279