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From: Pascal Giard <evilynux@gmail.com>
To: sox developers list <sox-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Reproducible builds and SoX
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:05:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNNDmmQG3TD2OQhKTVb3vfcRH6i6k+HvYYbyS4e_ZhLcMHehQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGzDe_bH-Op03nO6Y0Aux+=ShsFB+OMMSrcXOnwSs=QbO51BrQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Chris Bagwell <chris@cnpbagwell.com> wrote:
> I've come to not like compile time timestamp showing up in output as well.
> Complicates CI tests checking for behavior regressions, defeats rsync's
> --hard-link option if one uses that to keep backups of past CI builds, etc.
>
> In short term and to prevent breaking our ABI, I suggest changing that field
> to be NULL in both git and patch against debian.  sox.c looks for NULL and
> handles gracefully.

Debian is actually frozen until the release of Jessie so I can wait
for the next minor revision.
If that does not come before unstable gets unfrozen, I'll proceed as
you suggest.

> In longer term, I think a better plan is to output something like 'gcc -v'
> outputs; the exact list of options pasted to configure script. That, I
> think, is main intent of these timestamps; simple way to help detect 2
> binaries reporting same version # but compiled with different
> options/behavior.

Sound good. To be continued...

-Pascal
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-13 18:06 Reproducible builds and SoX Pascal Giard
2015-02-25  3:02 ` Chris Bagwell
2015-02-26 14:05   ` Pascal Giard [this message]

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