Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> writes: > To make it easier to reproduce builds of software and entire GNU/Linux > distributions, RMS had the idea of adding a warning to GCC that warns > about the use of __DATE__ and __TIME__. [...]
How about instead adding a --time=XXXXX option to gcc (cpp?) instead, so that someone interested in reproducing a build can rerun gcc with the original --time value? (gcc -grecord-gcc-switches could emit the then-current timestamp to enable this.) - FChE
