Re: Building packages twice in a row

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi>]

On ke, 2007-05-16 at 16:26 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
>   We should expect that given the same source, headers, and libraries, we
> would get the same bytes out of a build every time. Any deviation from this
> would indicate something different, or erratic. If it doesn't cause
> problems, fine, but I'd raise an eyebrow over it anyway.

printf("This program was compiled on " __DATE__ "\n");

An example like the above has already been given. Build dates and other
variable information gets put into a lot of output files from
compilations.

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