[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: add --build-date and --build-time options

[Timothy Gu]

On Wed Jan 21 2015 at 2:11:09 PM Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Debian tries to make binary packages build reproducible [1].
>
> FFmpeg embeds date and time in the program and documentation, which
> makes it hard to have binary reproducible packages.
>
> The attached patch allows to specify the build date and time to use with
> a configure option, solving this problem.


I'd rather have an option disabling it. Sounds cleaner.

Timothy