PATCH 21.5 Over on xemacs-beta, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: :-) I hoped somebody would like that. My favorite of all time, though, was the email address of Patrice Godefroid when he was at Bell Labs: god(a)att.com. Sure. The use case of interest is compiling on systems that vary only in CPU architecture. They will have the same sets of software installed, with exactly the same versions, etc. This change will make it possible to verify that we're getting identical results in such cases, which means the files can be shared across all architectures (we can produce a "noarch" package, to use RPM terminology). Anyway, here's the patch. diff -r be31f7878b0d lisp/ChangeLog --- a/lisp/ChangeLog Tue Sep 23 16:50:48 2014 -0600 +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog Thu Sep 25 11:58:18 2014 -0600 ＠＠ -1,3 +1,8 ＠＠ +2014-09-25 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-insert-header): do not insert email + addresses or timestamps in comments to get reproducible builds. + 2014-08-05 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * keymap.el: diff -r be31f7878b0d lisp/bytecomp.el --- a/lisp/bytecomp.el Tue Sep 23 16:50:48 2014 -0600 +++ b/lisp/bytecomp.el Thu Sep 25 11:58:18 2014 -0600 ＠＠ -2156,11 +2156,7 ＠＠ finally return res))) (setq comments (with-string-as-buffer-contents "" - (insert "\n;;; compiled by " - (or (and (boundp 'user-mail-address) user-mail-address) - (concat (user-login-name) "＠" (system-name))) - " on " - (current-time-string) "\n;;; from file " filename "\n") + (insert "\n;;; compiled from file " filename "\n") (insert ";;; emacs version " emacs-version ".\n") (insert ";;; bytecomp version " byte-compile-version "\n;;; " (cond -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches