[PATCH v5] Makefile: Add build time and compiler info string

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 01:12:25 PDT 2021


On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 3:44 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> On Okt 18 2021, Bin Meng wrote:
>
> > If this BUILD_DATE_EPOCH is not needed at all, I am not sure why do we
> > still keep
>
> BUILD_DATE_EPOCH is also non-standard.  The standard variable is
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
>

Yep, it's SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in v4, not sure why Anup changed the name in v5.

SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is well documented and is the way for distros to
generate "reproducible builds".

I would vote to completely drop the "BUILD_INFO=y" as it is not necessary.

Regards,
Bin



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