Re: Reproducible build (a.k.a deterministic build)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:04:01PM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:04:26AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:12:30PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > > 
> > > Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
> > > > What I've changed:
> > > >
> > > > - Hack cpp(1) to strip __FILE__'s prefix.
> > > >   - At the moment, hint prefix is given to cpp(1) via environment.
> > > 
> > > Probably a flag to cpp would be best in a final version, along with
> > > appropriate use of the flag in build.sh.
> > 
> > Ideally it should be something like the -S engine in pax, I think.
> 
> I think that's -s, not -S.

Sorry, yes.

> > Lint: same applies to llib-liscsi.ln
> 
> Does this happen for every reachover set of sources that we have (so
> openldap, openssh and others would be affected too?), or just things
> that require configuration files in a certain place? i.e. what's not
> identical in the lint libs?

I am not sure what is trigger this. It doesn't happen for example for
libarchive or libfetch.

Joerg