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Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?

From: M. Warner Losh (impbsdimp.com)
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 00:17:29 CDT


In message: <20051024064605.A44523cons.org>
            Martin Cracauer <cracauercons.org> writes:
: Peter Jeremy wrote on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:11PM +1000:
: > On Sun, 2005-Oct-23 16:29:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
: > >We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
: > >We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
: > >built.
: >
: > At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).
:
: ELF object files are timestamped. But there's some elf-cmp out there.

Elf .o's are timestampped, but Elf executables are 100% reproducible,
except when people go out of their way to not make them so. Like
adding the date or person builder.

Warner
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