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Re: reproducible builds of *.a static libaries
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: reproducible builds of *.a static libaries |
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Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:10:27 -0500 |
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 08:17:21PM +0100, Alexander Couzens wrote:
> Hi,
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> while working on reproducible builds [1], I've noticed ncurses is not
> reproducible, when creating *.a.
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> While looking further into the problem, I've found aclocal.m4 is
> checking if the "ar" support "-curvU". The U stands for
> non-deterministic.
I'm well aware of what it's used for, but having made it possible for
packagers to override the behavior using an environment variable,
will not make additional changes.
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