Hello,

I appreciate this patch, it will go in the next bug fix / porting release.

Regards
Gerhard Rieger


On 11/21/2014 01:24 AM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Jérémy Bobbio <lu...@debian.org> proposed a patch to the Debian
> maintainer of socat to fix a compilation problem [1]. He commented:
>
>    As part of the “reproducible builds” effort, we have discovered
>    that socat is using the __DATE__ and __TIME__ C pre-processor macro
>    to record the time of the build. This prevent socat build to be
>    reproducible.
>
>    The attached patch will instead set the value of the "timestamp"
>    variable to the date of the latest debian/changelog entry. In
>    order to do so, it will patch the build system to allow the build
>    timestamp to be externally set through the BUILD_DATE variable.
>
>    Once applied, socat can be built reproducibly.
>
> Maybe can you integrate it, please?
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764251
>
> Regards,
>


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