Re: final steps for reproduceable builds.

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

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:58:31AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <87ljredwx1.fsf%snark.cb.piermont.com@localhost>,
> Perry E. Metzger <perry%piermont.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >"Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> writes:
> >> I'll conditionalize the ar stuff on AR_DFLAG being set to yes and set
> >> that in build.sh in the manner of BUILDSEED, how's that?
> >
> >New patch (untested -- I'm running a build now) -- comments?
> >
> >Perry
> 
> 1. this makes the assumption that our ar does ranlib, which is only true
>    for gnu ar and will break other toolchains.

What other toolchains are you talking about? I would expect a
replacement for ar to have the update functionality as well.

Joerg