Make the Unix build process more repeatable

Before this change all manpages would contain the date when pod2man was
run. This resulted in outputs that differed between builds--or
potentially across a single build if the host clock "ticked" to the next
day when the build was being run.

This commit modifies the manpage generation process as follows:
- The date all manpages were generated will be normalized to a single
  date.
- The release date specified in `VERSION.dat` is used instead of the
  date/time when `pod2man` was executed OR--in the event a date isn't
  specified in `VERSION.dat`--the time when the Makefiles were last
  regenerated.

Embedding a consistent date into the generated manpages helps ensure that
the build process as a whole is more repeatable and helps ensure that
release versions of OpenSSL create artifacts consistent with the date
that the official release was cut.

Co-authored-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Signed-off-by: Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/28449)

(cherry picked from commit 2c0c9c83b292fdba001d968a8219db4083294003)

diff --git a/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl b/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl
index 09303c42dfd6dfce198dec580cfc2238d1d46671..f3e3a9898182947c082c4b5d52f63b5ffb7b4d5b 100644 (file)
--- a/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl
+++ b/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 ##
 ## {- join("\n## ", @autowarntext) -}
 {-
+     use Time::Piece;
+
      use OpenSSL::Util;
 
      our $makedep_scheme = $config{makedep_scheme};
@@ -74,6 +76,15 @@ FIPSKEY={- $config{FIPSKEY} -}
 
 VERSION={- "$config{full_version}" -}
 VERSION_NUMBER={- "$config{version}" -}
+RELEASE_DATE={- my $t = localtime;
+               if ($config{"release_date"}) {
+                       # Provide the user with a more meaningful error message
+                       # than the default internal parsing error from
+                       # `Time::Piece->strptime(..)`.
+                       eval { $t = Time::Piece->strptime($config{"release_date"}, "%d %b %Y"); } ||
+                               die "Parsing \$config{release_date} ('$config{release_date}') failed: $@";
+               }
+               $t->strftime("%Y-%m-%d") -}
 MAJOR={- $config{major} -}
 MINOR={- $config{minor} -}
 SHLIB_VERSION_NUMBER={- $config{shlib_version} -}
@@ -1566,7 +1577,8 @@ EOF
           return <<"EOF";
 $args{src}: $pod
        pod2man --name=$name --section=$section\$(MANSUFFIX) --center=OpenSSL \\
-               --release=\$(VERSION) $pod >\$\@
+               --date=\$(RELEASE_DATE) --release=\$(VERSION) \\
+               $pod >\$\@
 EOF
       } elsif (platform->isdef($args{src})) {
           #