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

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 10/26/05

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    Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:17:29 -0600 (MDT)
To: cracauer@cons.org

    In message: <20051024064605.A44523@cons.org>
                Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.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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