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From: Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Deterministic builds
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 14:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <572A0778.3080509@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff5f5b20-33e2-ef2d-012a-a9e02903ba21@cornell.edu>

On 2016-05-04 13:38, Ken Brown wrote:
> Is it possible to build an executable on Cygwin so that subsequent 
> builds (with no change in source) produce identical results?  Currently, 
> the timestamp embedded in executables prevents this.  (I don't know if 
> that's the only obstacle.)

'-fno-guess-branch-probability' removes one potential obstacle:
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/02/msg01154.html
I don't know if there are other obstacles than these.


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-04 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-04 13:38 Ken Brown
2016-05-04 14:30 ` Greg Chicares [this message]
2016-05-04 17:11 ` Achim Gratz
2016-05-04 17:21 ` Ismail Donmez
2016-05-04 17:40   ` Ken Brown
2016-05-05 17:59     ` Ken Brown
2016-05-05 20:26       ` Warren Young
2016-05-05 21:46         ` Ken Brown
2016-05-05  1:50 ` Andrey Repin

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