[lug] Reproducing a build

[David L. Anselmi]

Davide Del Vento wrote:
>> executables do not match identically to these from the old final build
> 
> What do you mean, exactly? Are you diffing the executables? If so,
> think it's pretty impossible to have precisely identical executables,
> because of some things that get embedded, such as creation date and
> time (it's for sure on AIX, I think the same is for linux too).

Compile date would be my guess too, strings might be all you need to see 
that (worth diffing the strings output I'd guess).

Such things are not unavoidable on Linux.  I have a program that 
compiles the same way every time (even when built as 32 bit on 32 or 64 
bit Linux).

Dave