Hello,
at the moment ngircd fails the tests for reproducible builds in Debian since it uses the __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros for the INFO command.
Instead of patching this out I decided to implement an optional constant BIRTHTIME that allows you to set a time stamp for the "Birth Date" information, in seconds since the epoch, like in
export CFLAGS += -DBIRTHTIME=$(shell date +%s --date="2015/08/15 23:42:22")
In the future, Debian will provide a SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable, dealing with the situation until then will be my job.
The time format was taken from the NGIRCd_StartStr formatting in ngircd.c so the "Birth Date" and "On-line since" lines in the INFO output look similar:
:irc.example.net 371 nick :ngIRCd 22.1-IDENT+IPv6+IRCPLUS+PAM+SSL+SYSLOG+ZLIB-x86_64/pc/linux-gnu :irc.example.net 371 nick :Birth Date: Tue Aug 25 2015 at 18:11:11 (CEST) :irc.example.net 371 nick :On-line since Tue Aug 25 2015 at 18:11:33 (CEST) :irc.example.net 374 nick :End of INFO list
The format of the time stamped is changed, but as far as I can tell, there's no rule that is violated by that.
Bonus level: Reformat the messages so the time stamps are aligned.
Christoph
--- a/src/ngircd/irc-info.c +++ b/src/ngircd/irc-info.c @@ -556,7 +556,15 @@ NGIRCd_Version)) return DISCONNECTED;
-#if defined(__DATE__) && defined(__TIME__) +#if defined(BIRTHDATE) + char t_str[60]; + time_t t = BIRTHDATE; + (void)strftime(t_str, sizeof(t_str), "%a %b %d %Y at %H:%M:%S (%Z)", + localtime(&t)); + snprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), "Birth Date: %s", t_str); + if (!IRC_WriteStrClient(Client, RPL_INFO_MSG, Client_ID(prefix), msg)) + return DISCONNECTED; +#elif defined(__DATE__) && defined(__TIME__) snprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), "Birth Date: %s at %s", __DATE__, __TIME__); if (!IRC_WriteStrClient(Client, RPL_INFO_MSG, Client_ID(prefix), msg)) return DISCONNECTED;