[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 10/15] reproducible: enable fakedate
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Sat Nov 19 10:22:23 UTC 2016
On 18-11-16 14:53, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> On 2016-11-18 12:49, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:10:19 +0100, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
>>
>>> +ifeq ($(BR2_REPRODUCIBLE),y)
>>> +TOOLCHAIN_DEPENDENCIES += host-fakedate
>>> +endif
>>
>> Unfortunately, this means that fakedate is only installed at the end of
>> the toolchain build process. So the entire toolchain is built without
>> fakedate installed.
>>
>> Is it because we assume that the toolchain build process is safe (i.e
>> it doesn't call "date") ?
>
> During my tests, fakedate was build before host-gcc-initial. Indeed, I
> was lucky (in add, I think toolchain build process is safe).
>
>
>> Perhaps it should be added in DEPENDENCIES_HOST_PREREQ instead ?
>
> Right.
And that can be done in the top-level BR2_REPRODUCIBLE condition.
Regards,
Arnout
>
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