On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 08:16:46PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> * gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm (ghostscript): Add phase "remove-timestamps".
> ---
>  gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm b/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm
> index 1cb651c96..56e05cd77 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm
> @@ -185,6 +185,11 @@ printing, and psresize, for adjusting page sizes.")
>                       (substitute* "base/gscdef.c"
>                         (("GS_DOCDIR")
>                          "\"~/.guix-profile/share/doc/ghostscript\""))))
> +        (add-after 'configure 'remove-timestamps
> +                   (lambda _
> +                     (substitute* "base/mkromfs.c"
> +                       (("time\\(NULL\\)") "0U"))
> +                     #t))
>          (replace 'build
>            (lambda _
>              ;; Build 'libgs.so', but don't build the statically-linked 'gs'
> 

is it possible to patch this in a snippet?

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