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[PATCH] GNU_AR_DETERMINISTIC env var, --enable-deterministic-archives

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Dec 13 14:52:00 GMT 2011 
nick clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

> I appreciate that the main thrust of this change is to make
> reproducible builds possible without having to do a lot of work
> changing package build scripts.  But I think that that is a poor
> reason to introduce a debugging nightmare like this.

What about putting a shell script version of ar first on PATH?  Are
there many programs that pull ar out of some magic location rather than
simply using PATH?

Ian
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