Makefile: add '-n' to gzip invocations to improve reproducibility

Default invocation to gzip include timestamp in output file. This feature is
incompatible with BR2_REPRODUCIBLE. It is possible to disable it with '-n'.

The environment variable GZIP can hold a set of default options for gzip. So
instead to find all gzip invocation in build process, we just export 'GZIP=-n'.

Notice bzip2, lzma and xz are not impacted by this problem. On the other hand, lzop
does include timestamp and does not provide any way to disable it.

This work was sponsored by `BA Robotic Systems'.

Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8acbe5865511b34b68db4b888a03bee88188062e..9e588dae7d26a78aed10badbefefe92847e8bf7e 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_REPRODUCIBLE),y)
 export TZ=UTC
 export LANG=C
 export LC_ALL=C
+export GZIP = -n
 BR2_VERSION_GIT_EPOCH = $(shell GIT_DIR=$(TOPDIR)/.git $(GIT) log -1 --format=%at)
 export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH = $(if $(wildcard $(TOPDIR)/.git),$(BR2_VERSION_GIT_EPOCH),$(BR2_VERSION_EPOCH))
 endif