On Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:57:42 Blakawk wrote: > As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in > the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of > the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two > binaries on two different system if they are compiled with the same > compiler version and libraries
in theory. In practice only a slight change here and there - might result in huge changes. 'Almost identical' but the things that are not identical will screw you up. Almost identical is like 'totally different' in this case. Instead wasting time comparing the machines, he should find the culprit for the segfault. KDE's backtracking tool (drkonqi) and strace help a lot with that. If he knows where it fails, he at least has a chance to find out why.
