HTML manuals builds are not reproducible

[aelmahmoudy]

The build of a couple of HTML manuals (manual.html & hacking.html) are not reproducible:

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[aelmahmoudy]

I was mistaken, I was building by manually adding -DCONFIG_REPRODUCIBLE to CFLAGS & CXXFLAGS. I found tabout the --enable-reproducible config option, and rebuilt. Yet I got this error:

 [ASCIIDOC]   doc/elinks.1.xml
FAILED: unexpected error:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/builds/aelmahmoudy/elinks/debian/output/source_dir/doc/.././doc/tools/asciidoc/as
ciidoc.py", line 3764, in asciidoc
    document.init_attrs()
  File
"/builds/aelmahmoudy/elinks/debian/output/source_dir/doc/.././doc/tools/asciidoc/as
ciidoc.py", line 1066, in init_attrs
    d = time.gmtime(int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time())))
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
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make[2]: *** [Makefile:185: elinks.1.xml] Error 1

Python 3.11 was used during build. Full build log: https://salsa.debian.org/aelmahmoudy/elinks/-/jobs/4138496/raw

[rkd77]

There is another configure option: --with-source-date-epoch=TIME

TIME is number of seconds since epoch I guess. Try it combined with --enable-reproducible

[aelmahmoudy]

Yes, I used that and the problem got fixed. So it seems that time.time() returns an empty string, causing that build error.