On May 5, 2016, at 11:59 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
Ismail's suggestion did indeed produce deterministic builds in my setup. I built a large project with about 150 executables, changed a few source files, removed the build directory, rebuilt, and found that only the (expected) few executables changed.
âand does it do the same on a very different system? e.g. Try it on both 64-bit Windows 10 and on 32-bit Windows 7.
Perhaps you donât need it, but part of the reason for the big push recently for reproducible builds is to be able to verify that binaries from a given source (e.g. Red Hatâs RPM feed) are in fact buildable from the sources distributed from the same source (e.g. Red Hatâs SRPMs).