[Buildroot] [PATCH 09/34] reproducibility/libglib2: allow removing codegen

[Gilles Chanteperdrix]

On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 11:04:25PM +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 04/30/16 09:49, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > But this is not sufficient, compiling the python bytecode with the
> > same interpreter in different environments yields different binaries,
> 
>   Er, this is worrisome... You are saying that we don't have a chance in hell of 
> generating reproducible python bytecode?

I am not a python specialist, but it seems to me four bytes in the
python generated bytecode are the build timestamp, so unless there
is a way to override it with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, I do not see that
possible. 

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