Re: Automake 1.18 regression (?)

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 11:26=E2=80=AFPM Karl Berry <[email protected]> =
wrote:

>     jcb> Could the right answer be to limit the effect of
>     SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamps that will appear in built files?
>
> I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean, Jacob.
>
> At any rate, before flailing around further, I'd like to understand why
> the Debian build had problems with the original mdate-sh that did
> nothing with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Santiago? Please? This is following up
> on the change I made to mdate-sh following your (indirect) report at
> https://bugs.gnu.org/77805.
>
> Making mdate-sh aware of S_D_E caused problems (info files getting
> rebuild) with the RH build, per Frederic's report at
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-06/msg00016.html.
>
> Also, I'd like to hear confirmation from Frederic that my guess is
> correct, or not, as to why the S_D_E-enabled mdate-sh caused makeinfo
> reruns.
>

Sorry, I wasn't able to allocate more time on this at the beginning of the
week.

Considering that you think of reverting the mdate-sh change, should I try
to get some cycles on that ?


>
> In other words, to understand what's really going on :). --thanks, karl.
>
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