Having the date there makes the build fail with the default distro build options: /home/tjaalton/src/pkg-opencl/intel-graphics-compiler.git/visa/iga/IGALibrary/api/iga.cpp:620:62: error: macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] return IGA_VERSION_STRING "-" IGA_EXTERNAL_INTERNAL " (" __DATE__ ")"; ^~~~~~~~