ar and ranlib -D

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 10 15:22:20 UTC 2014


On 10 April 2014 11:06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> The attached patch adds -D to ARFLAGS and introduces RANLIBFLAGS which
> defaults to -D.  This ensures that all timestamps inside static
> libraries in the base system are hardcoded to 0 (aka the epoch), which
> is a huge step towards fully reproducible builds.  Any objections?

Looks good to me, I'm not sure why this didn't happen long ago.


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