[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 10/15] reproducible: enable fakedate

Jérôme Pouiller jezz at sysmic.org
Fri Nov 18 13:53:41 UTC 2016


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.

-- 
Jérôme Pouiller


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