Re: Automake 1.18 regression (?)

Carlos O'Donell <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:43:51 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Organization	Red Hat
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 6/19/25 4:25 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Frederic - it would be better to send failures to bug-automake, so
> they get bug numbers. But no big deal.
> 
>      I'm facing a strange regression between 1.17.92 and 1.18 when
>      rebuilding Automake:
>      FAIL: t/txinfo-vtexi4
> 
> Are you setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the failing build and if so, to what?
> Can you view the failing foo.texi file that gets created?

By default Fedora sets SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to the latest rpm spec file
%changelog date since this mechanism yields a reproducible build if
you rebuild the same rpm.

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Cheers,
Carlos.