Re: syslinux version for experimental, please sponsor
On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 12:03:37PM +0100, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>thanks for sponsoring!
>
>It bothers me (probably more than it should) that syslinux still does
>not build reproducibly on i386 [1]. Ironically, I cannot reproduce the
>problem locally (i.e. if I create an i386 schroot and use that to build
>the package, it still builds reproducibly on my machine). So I don't
>know of any way for testing this besides uploading updated versions.
>
>Comparing the i386 build logs from reproducible-builds.org, I found two
>instances of `ar` which were given object files in different orders.
>I've fixed those. Everything else in the build log looks identical to
>me, so I hope this will finally allow syslinux to build reproducibly
>on i386 as well.
>
>Would you mind uploading once more? I've updated the
>debian/experimental branch accordingly…
Done and in incoming now. Thanks!
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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