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Re: Disabling timestamps, was Re: [PATCH roland/Versions.def]....
- From: Brooks Moses <bmoses at google dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:56:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: Disabling timestamps, was Re: [PATCH roland/Versions.def]....
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Brooks Moses wrote:
>> This suggests a related point -- we have a local patch to turn off the date
>> stamp in csu/Makefile, as part of our process of doing repeatable builds.
>>
>> Is there any interest in having this upstream? The local patch is really
>> trivial, but an upstream version would want a configure option and would need
>> some additional pieces to ensure determinism (most notably, including "D" as
>> an ar option, and presumably doing something with build-ids if one is using a
>> GCC where they're normally enabled).
>
> Do you have something to make the nscd build deterministic?
Only trivially. We use --disable-nscd. :)
- Brooks