Deterministic Archives

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Fri Feb 1 01:24:26 UTC 2013


Sebastian Huber wrote:
>
> If binutils was configured with --enable-deterministic-archives, then
> this mode is on by default. It can be disabled with the `U' modifier,
> below.
> [...]

My playing seems to indicate you need 2.23.1 for this to work.

>
> We should consider to add this configure option to the standard tool
> chain build. This helps to avoid artificial differences in library files.
>

This is a great idea and I fully support doing this. It will help with 
verification and validation.

Chris



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