Reproducable builds

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:32:50 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> I started looking at the patch files.  Looks good, thanks.

I have another pass.  I'm unhappy the comment indents lost.

> But it's hard to verify all that by eyeball.  Is there a way we can
> get the reproducable build stuff to verify that you haven't make any
> real changes?

AFAIK, all the pipelines are passing now, except the last one I am
working on, the attic stuff.

> If I build ntpd, get the checksum, build again (no source changes) I
> get the same sum.

I'm not sure if ntpd can do that yet.  Never been a hard goal, even
though it has been asked for.

I used a simple python program to do the conversions, so there
should be no changes.

> If I add a comment, I get a different sum.

Adding a comment changes the line numbers, and thus the debug info.
Maybe try comparing stripped bonaries?

> Is there a flag or such that will leave ignore comments?

Beats me.  Ask Grok?

> Do you want me to approve the ones I like?

Wait until I have fixed the comment indents.  Then please do.

RGDS
GARY
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