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[bug#35511,0/1] Add configure flag to emacs to improverepoducibility

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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice May 4, 2019, 11:51 p.m. UTC 
ng0@n0.is wrote:
> This email states:
> # The configuration option --disable-build-details can be used 
> to omit some information, such as build host name, which make 
> the build not reproducible across machines.
>
> There is either a typo (not reproducible -> reproducible?) or 
> this should not be used.

I think the original e-mail is correct: ‘the information … make[s] 
the build not reproducible’.  The option can't be the subject 
here.

> If we have nil instead of the time of our environment, this 
> won't really add
> any value.
> When the time is epoch+1 or similar anyway, recording it does no 
> harm.

The time in our environment isn't reproducible AFAIK.

Kind regards,

T G-R