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Date:      Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:46:05 -0400
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, delphij@delphij.net, developers@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?
Message-ID:  <20051024064605.A44523@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051024080811.GF39882@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>; from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:11PM %2B1000
References:  <20051023105230.GA55181@frontfree.net> <20051023232935.GC602@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051024080811.GF39882@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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Peter Jeremy wrote on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:11PM +1000: 
> On Sun, 2005-Oct-23 16:29:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> >We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
> >We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
> >built.
> 
> At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).

ELF object files are timestamped.  But there's some elf-cmp out there.

Martin
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