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authorJohannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>2023-07-24 16:59:19 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2023-07-24 16:59:19 +0100
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objcopy embeds the current time and ignores SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH making the output unreproducible.
bfd * peXXigen.c (_bfd_XXi_only_swap_filehdr_out): If inserting a timestamp, use the value held in the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable, if it is defined. binutils * doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Document change in behaviour of objcopy's --preserve-dates command line option. ld * pe-dll.c (fill_edata): If inserting a timestamp, use the value held in the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable, if it is defined. * ld.texi (--insert-timestamp): Document change in behaviour.
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@@ -1626,6 +1626,11 @@ commands. If the input was '12345678' then the outputs would be
Set the access and modification dates of the output file to be the same
as those of the input file.
+This option also copies the date stored in a PE format file's header,
+unless the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is defined. If it
+is defined then this variable will be used as the date stored in the
+header, interpreted as the number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
+
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