On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:25:16 +0100, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> On 10.03.2024 15:31, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:45:01 +0100, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> > wrote:  
> >> On 16.01.2024 14:57, Stephen Kitt wrote:  
> >>> Since ar can be built defaulting to deterministic mode, tests which
> >>> expect non-deterministic behaviour need to explicitly set the U flag.
> >>>
> >>> The non-deterministic member test expects SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to not be
> >>> set; this documents that. Unconditionally unsetting the variable
> >>> causes issues in test infrastructure (which expects unsetenv to only
> >>> be called on variables which are already set).
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>    
> >>
> >> In the absence of any other comments, please feel free to put in.  
> > 
> > I’m not sure whether this was asking me to apply my patch to the binutils
> > tree, but I can’t push to the binutils tree myself.  
> 
> I see; I've committed it on your behalf.

Thanks!

Stephen