On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 13:37:08 +0100 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: reassign -1 binutils-multiarch > Control: retitle -1 binutils-multiarch: ar and ranlib generates > undeterministic symbol table ar entries > > Hi! > > It seems the culprit is binutils-multiarch, binutils works just fine. >
I can confirm this. Minimal test case: $ touch lol && ar cruv lol.a lol && xxd lol.a | head -n4 ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U') r - lol 00000000: 213c 6172 6368 3e0a 2f53 594d 3634 2f20 !<arch>./SYM64/ 00000010: 2020 2020 2020 2020 3134 3738 3732 3431 14787241 00000020: 3239 2020 3020 2020 2020 3020 2020 2020 29 0 0 00000030: 3020 2020 2020 2020 3732 2020 2020 2020 0 72 Watch the timestamp increase as you run this repeatedly. It doesn't happen with ar from binutils, only binutils-multiarch. However, it looks like it might be an upstream issue - notice the explicit notice saying that `D' is supposedly the default, yet there's a timestamp there. So the Debian package is passing in the correct configure flag (--enable-deterministic-archives) but it's not being respected for some reason. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
