On 08/25/2015 11:55 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2015-08-25, Andreas Bießmann wrote: >> On 07/28/2015 05:00 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 06:48:15PM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: >>>> In order to achieve reproducible builds in U-Boot, timestamps that are >>>> defined >>>> at build-time have to be somewhat eliminated. The SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH >>>> environment >>>> variable allows setting a fixed value for those timestamps. >>>> >>>> Simply by setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to a fixed value, a number of targets >>>> can be >>>> built reproducibly. This is the case for e.g. sunxi devices. >>>> >>>> However, some other devices might need some more tweaks, especially >>>> regarding >>>> the image generation tools. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <cont...@paulk.fr> >>> >>> Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! >> >> This commit breaks build on non GNU hosts (like OS X and persumably >> other *BSD hosts). Before, those hosts where supported, so for me this >> has to be fixed for 2015.10 >> >> We need a) some mechanism to search for the GNU date variant or b) some >> wrapper to provide the correct output on those host machines. >> >> I vote for a), it is acceptable to have the GNU date available but we >> should error on 'no GNU date available'. Furthermore we need to have the >> date command exchangeable by e.g. gdate, gnudate, ... maybe with full path. > > There was a proposed patch which only uses the GNU date extensions if > SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is set, would this sufficiently > address your concerns, at least for the short term? > > Message-Id: <1438337042-30762-1-git-send-email-judge.pack...@gmail.com> > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-August/221429.html
thanks for the pointer, normal builds work with that change. Andreas _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
