Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:01:38 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why present different size and md5 hash between the compiled code and FreeBSD's build-in binary ? Message-ID: <20041012160138.GA1128@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <416BBBCD.9050704@gmx.net> References: <20041012090959.69545.qmail@web17202.mail.tpe.yahoo.com> <416BBBCD.9050704@gmx.net>
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:11:09PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote: > if your source files are *exactly* the same versions used as on the > building cluster, and you have *exactly* the same compilation options, > it would still be possible to have different binaries. For example if > the files included some reference to the current time, either in some > flags in the generated .o, .a, .so, or perhaps in the source code of > auto-generated headers. Some paths referenced could also be different on > your system than on the build cluster. To be more precisely, GCC/binutils add timestamps under certain circumstances. Joerg
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