Compare them without the ELF headers, a section at a time, so that the timestamps are irrelevent.
You may also have to throw out the "what" information from the binaries, preemptively... Julian Elischer wrote: > > I have two directories of executables > (actually two entire FreeBSD filesystems) > > they were both produced from the same checked out trees except that > between the two compiles, some patches (unknown) were applied > to the sources. > > How can I find out which binaries have changed? > they are all different according to cksum so I assume > that there is a timestamp or something in them. > Is there a way to compare only the text segments? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message