Re: final steps for reproduceable builds.

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:58:31AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <87ljredwx1.fsf%snark.cb.piermont.com@localhost>,
>> Perry E. Metzger <perry%piermont.com@localhost> wrote:
>> >
>> >"Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> writes:
>> >> I'll conditionalize the ar stuff on AR_DFLAG being set to yes and set
>> >> that in build.sh in the manner of BUILDSEED, how's that?
>> >
>> >New patch (untested -- I'm running a build now) -- comments?
>> >
>> >Perry
>> 
>> 1. this makes the assumption that our ar does ranlib, which is only true
>>    for gnu ar and will break other toolchains.
>
> What other toolchains are you talking about? I would expect a
> replacement for ar to have the update functionality as well.

Indeed, as I note, the functionality is required by POSIX.

Perry
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