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Re: [PATCH 1/1] intl/plural.c: improve reproducibility
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Rical Jasan wrote:
> never regenerate plural.c (which would be the opposite approach). Here,
> you're proposing to always generate it at build time, which should be
> consistent with the bison you routinely use, but wouldn't never
> regenerating plural.c be more universally consistent across all glibc
> builds? (Updating it in the repo when plural.y changes, of course.)
Consistency across builds is always only for builds with consistent
versions of build tools. Some tools such as GCC and binutils will
inevitably have their versions affect the resulting binaries; this patch
would add bison to the set. (Some tools such as sed and awk should not
affect the generated binaries, of course.)
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