Timo Röhling: > Package: debhelper > Version: 13 > Severity: wishlist > > By default, CMake adds an RPATH entry to ELF binaries and deletes it > again at install time. However, due to the limitations of some > platforms, CMake will actually zero out the RPATH entry in the binary, > leaking the original path length and thus making the build not > reproducible (see the attached diffoscope output for an example). > > CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH disables the RPATH machinery and fixes the issue, and > since most package won't ever ship with an RPATH entry anyway, I propose > adding -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON to the default build options. > > Cheers > Timo >
Hi Timo, Thanks for the suggestion. Has this proposal been tested on an archive-wide rebuild test to see how much breaks with this option set? ~Niels
