Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes: > Before investing more time into it I wonder whether the use of > 'libfaketime' would be a valid solution for creating reproducible > builds. According to 'pkgs.org' it is available for most GNU/Linux > distributions; it is also part of both MacPorts and Homebrew. > > https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime > > The idea is to do the following: > > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libfaketime.so.1 > export FAKETIME="2020-12-24 00:00:00" > > make all > make doc > > This freezes the current time at a given value.
Isn't that a problem for the operation of Make itself since it relies on file modification dates? -- David Kastrup
