1. If BUILD_REPRODUCIBLE_BINARIES == 1, set KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
to a reproducible value. This is either a non-zero SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, or the
value obtained from top entry of GIT repo, or (if there is no GIT repo)
fallback to REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS as the last resort.
Also export KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP=1.
2. When compressing vmlinux.gz, use gzip "-n" option
3. Kernel and kernel modules contain hard coded paths referencing the host
build system. This is usually because the source code contains __FILE__
at some place. This prevents binary reproducibility. However, some compilers
allow remapping of the __FILE__ value. If we detect the compiler is capable
of doing this, we replace the source path $(S) part of __FILE__ by a string "/kernel-source".
For example:
