Allow to override build date and host

BenLangmead / bowtie

An ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner

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Allow to override build date and host #99

Closed bmwiedemann closed 4 years ago

bmwiedemann commented 4 years ago

Allow to override build date with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH 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.

Note: This date call is designed to work with different flavors of date (GNU, BSD and others). If only GNU (Linux) support is needed, the patch can be simplified.

bmwiedemann commented 4 years ago

Related https://github.com/BenLangmead/bowtie2/pull/210 was merged a while back.

Is this repo still maintained? Should I change something in the patch?