Control: user reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Control: usertag -1 + buildpath toolchain
>> By default, CMake adds an RPATH entry to ELF binaries and deletes it >> again at install time. However, due to the limitations of some >> platforms, CMake will actually zero out the RPATH entry in the binary, >> leaking the original path length and thus making the build not >> reproducible (see the attached diffoscope output for an example). >> >> CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH disables the RPATH machinery and fixes the issue, and >> since most package won't ever ship with an RPATH entry anyway, I propose >> adding -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON to the default build options. > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Has this proposal been tested on an archive-wide rebuild test to see how > much breaks with this option set? I don't know, but I don't think so. I'm not directly involved with the Reproducible Builds Team, I just pinged them on IRC after I filed this bug. Cc'ing them now.
