From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 10:33:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/6] autobuild-run: use different output directories for reproducible builds testing In-Reply-To: <8265074.T7ehH8mb2W@msi-manjaro> References: <20190806181251.21885-1-itsatharva@gmail.com> <20190806213724.33e3f302@windsurf.home> <8265074.T7ehH8mb2W@msi-manjaro> Message-ID: <20190807103344.47590808@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:32:52 +0530 Atharva Lele wrote: > > Is this an intermediate step, with the long term goal of supporting > > output directories of different length, or is this a limitation that we > > will have "forever" ? > > Reproducible-Builds has proposed a spec called BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP to help > with this. However, that is still in the works and not fully solved yet. (As > told to Yann and I on the #reproducible-builds IRC) > > See: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/GCC-build-path and https:// > reproducible-builds.org/specs/build-path-prefix-map/ > > So I think until further work is done on BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP, we will have > to stay with output directories of same length. OK, thanks for the additional explanation. These details would have been useful to have in the commit log I believe. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com