Hi,
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> Is it possible to build an executable on Cygwin so that subsequent builds
> (with no change in source) produce identical results? Currently, the
> timestamp embedded in executables prevents this. (I don't know if that's
> the only obstacle.)
>
> For example:
>
> $ cat hello.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> int
> main ()
> {
> printf("Hello, world!\n");
> return 0;
> }
>
> $ gcc hello.c -o hello1
>
> $ gcc hello.c -o hello2
>
> $ objdump -p hello1.exe | grep Time/Date
> Time/Date Wed May 4 09:20:24 2016
>
> $ objdump -p hello2.exe | grep Time/Date
> Time/Date Wed May 4 09:20:29 2016
You can easily disable this feature:
latte ~ > gcc -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp hello.c
latte ~ > objdump -p a.exe | grep Time/Date
Time/Date Thu Jan 1 03:31:53 1970
latte ~ > gcc -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp hello.c
latte ~ > objdump -p a.exe | grep Time/Date
Time/Date Thu Jan 1 03:31:53 1970
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