Bug#948582: bochs: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: bochs
Version: 2.6.11+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
bochs could not be built reproducibly.

Whilst Bochs now reads a determistic date it reformatted it using the
date(1) utility with a command-line that was not orthogonal to the
build system's environment, resulting in the aforementioned static
date appearing to change in extreme timezones.

Patch attached.

  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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