Reproducible Builds

[Jon Turney]

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.