Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2022-01-13

Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH RFC] package/binutils: build deterministic archives by default

From: Arnout Vandecappelle <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-03 10:14:37


On 30/09/2021 00:00, Romain Naour wrote:
The option --enable-deterministic-archives that build deterministic
archives is supported by binutils since binutils 2.23 [1][2].
 Should we make this dependent on BR2_REPRODUCIBLE? AFAICS it sets the date fields in static libraries to zero.

 Is this going to fix a reproducibility issue detected by the autobuilders?

 Regards,
 Arnout
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See "Static libraries" chapter [3].
https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/

Enable this option for target and host variant.

It was added to Yocto Morty (2.2) in 2016 [4].

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=2e30cb575a1d2b1eb8f776356ed59b0722a943d1
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=9cb80f72d8b8b2f59562692d9385cd5a533e9b3f
[3] https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives
[4] https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/df0d525c02780b5a0bd7a177a249c55f41797476

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <redacted>
---
  package/binutils/binutils.mk | 2 ++
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/package/binutils/binutils.mk b/package/binutils/binutils.mk
index 8ec76134bc..c5c685ac85 100644
--- a/package/binutils/binutils.mk
+++ b/package/binutils/binutils.mk
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ BINUTILS_CONF_OPTS = \
  	--target=$(GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
  	--enable-install-libiberty \
  	--enable-build-warnings=no \
+	--enable-deterministic-archives \
  	$(BINUTILS_DISABLE_GDB_CONF_OPTS) \
  	$(BINUTILS_EXTRA_CONFIG_OPTIONS)
  
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ HOST_BINUTILS_CONF_OPTS = \
  	--disable-shared \
  	--enable-static \
  	--with-sysroot=$(STAGING_DIR) \
+	--enable-deterministic-archives \
  	--enable-poison-system-directories \
  	--without-debuginfod \
  	$(BINUTILS_DISABLE_GDB_CONF_OPTS) \
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