[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/6] autobuild-run: use different output directories for reproducible builds testing

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Aug 7 08:33:44 UTC 2019


Hello,

On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:32:52 +0530
Atharva Lele <itsatharva at gmail.com> 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
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