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Re: Deterministic builds
- From: Greg Chicares <gchicares at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 14:30:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: Deterministic builds
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- References: <ff5f5b20-33e2-ef2d-012a-a9e02903ba21 at cornell dot edu>
On 2016-05-04 13:38, Ken Brown wrote:
> Is it possible to build an executable on Cygwin so that subsequent
> builds (with no change in source) produce identical results? Currently,
> the timestamp embedded in executables prevents this. (I don't know if
> that's the only obstacle.)
'-fno-guess-branch-probability' removes one potential obstacle:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/02/msg01154.html
I don't know if there are other obstacles than these.
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