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Re:Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigat... by rrix2 on Monday December 04, 2017 @11:25AM (#15845031)
libfaketime is also still crucial for reproduceable builds with a lot of compiers embedding compilation date, too, right?
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Re:Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigat... by jwilk on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:53PM (#15845863)
At least Debian folks didn't have to resort to using libfaketime. Instead, they patch the embedding tools to use timestamp from environment:

https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

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