Paul Eggert wrote: > > I don't see what > > information is useful in a software release tarball that needs to go in > > there? > > The main bugaboo I see is AIX 'make', which says A is out of date if it > has the same timestamp as B.
It's only HP-UX 'make', not AIX 'make', as you found out recently in the thread "reproducible built files" [1][2]. Bruno [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-12/msg00217.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-12/msg00227.html