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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mini-os: sort objects in binary archives
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 12:24:29 +0000
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On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 12:45 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> When building stubdom the mini-os objects are also linked into the
> binary. Unfortunately the linker will place them in the order found in
> the archive. Since this order is random the resulting stubdom binary
> differs when it was built from identical sources but on different
> build hosts. To help with creating a reproducible binary the elements
> in an archive must simply be sorted before passing them to $(AR).

OOI why does this problem not also apply the to the regular .a and .so
files we build?