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Re: Reproducible Builds


On 12/10/2015 20:13, Achim Gratz wrote:
Has anybody tried to make cygport builds reproducible?  It bothers me
that each time I build the same package in the same build environment I
get a different package archive (even if the same size it will have
another checksum) and lots of files inside the archive are different,
too.

First you need to get the tool chain to produce deterministic builds, which I believe is possible.

You might take a look at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16887 for one of the reasons why this is not turned on by default.


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