[Reproducible-builds] GCC patch reviewed. Proposed mail for gcc-patches mailing list

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

Dhole, thanks for keeping up the good work on this! +kudos too! :)

On Dienstag, 10. November 2015, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Out of interest, would you extend this argument to argue for an
> > arbitrary build path?
> In principle, yes. I have yet to see why an executable should be
> different just because it was built in one path or in another one.

While I agree in theory, I do disagree in practise and today.

I totally agree keeping this on a todo list somewhere visible, but we also 
want reproducible builds now and using a fixed path is the only solution we 
found in a year of looking for it.

So, I don't want perfect to be the blocker of very good (in the case of 
reproducible builds).


cheers,
	Holger
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