On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Simon Baldwin wrote: > This creates a problem for build and packaging systems that are > fanatical about binary reproducibility and checksums. Temporary file > names differ on each compilation, so that two different builds of > libgfortran.a, and by extension all of gcc, will not be bit-identical. > > Anyone else encountered this? Bug or feature? There are several > possible and relatively easy fixes -- any thoughts or feedback on > which fixes might be better, or worse? Something for mainline or for > only google-specific branches?
Based on what I am seeing with various build systems and hear some users say, I'd love to see this addressed on mainline. Gerald
