[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/12] reproducibility: introduce config knob

[Yann E. MORIN]

Gilles, All,

On 2016-06-14 17:31 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix spake thusly:
> Making the builds reproducible involves turning off build timestamps,
> which some users may find annoying. So make the reproducible builds
> optional.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix at xenomai.org>

Quite obviously:

Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

Note: it may take some time for my reviews on the rest of your series to
come in...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> ---
>  Config.in | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
> index 9fa7415..faf4c71 100644
> --- a/Config.in
> +++ b/Config.in
> @@ -724,6 +724,17 @@ config BR2_COMPILER_PARANOID_UNSAFE_PATH
>  
>  endmenu
>  
> +config BR2_REPRODUCIBLE
> +	bool "Make the build reproducible (experimental)"
> +        help
> +          This option will remove all sources of non-reproducibility
> +          from the build process. For a given Buildroot configuration,
> +          this allows to generate exactly identical binaries from one
> +          build to the other, including on different machines.
> +
> +          This is labeled as an experimental feature, as not all
> +          packages behave properly to ensure reproducibility.
> +
>  endmenu
>  
>  source "toolchain/Config.in"
> -- 
> 2.8.2
> 
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