On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:45:34 GMT, Erik Joelsson <er...@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.
>
> 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?
Yeah, no, you're right. It's environmental damage due to working too long in
makefiles. :) I'll fix, thanks for catching it.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6279
