Re: failing CI builds

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 8:02 PM Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> When comparing the build artifacts, I noticed that the output files
> >> in mf/ are not reproducible. I'm not sure if that is related,
> >
> > Unlikely.  For unknown reasons metapost is dumping the current time
> > in its log output [...]
>
> AFAIK, Metafont and Metapost (among many other TeXLive binaries)
> support the `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable to allow
> reproducible builds.  I suggest that we set this variable.

I tried setting it in mf/GNUmakefile, but it didn't work.

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