[chrony-dev] [PATCH] Allow to override build date

["Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@xxxxxxx>]

in order to make builds reproducible.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good
and https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
for the definition of this variable.

---
version 2 using if+else to match style of the remainder of the script
---
 configure | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 45eddf1..7b57992 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -550,7 +550,11 @@ then
     split_seconds=$ntp_era_split
     split_days=0
   else
-    split_seconds=`date '+%s'`
+    if [ "x$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH" != "x" ]; then
+      split_seconds=$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
+    else
+      split_seconds=`date '+%s'`
+    fi
     if [ "x$split_seconds" = "x" ]; then
       echo "error: could not get current time, --with-ntp-era option is needed"
       exit 1
-- 
2.13.6


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