Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > One issue is that “make dist” is non-deterministic because the archive > contains timestamps; I’m sure there of other sources of non-determinism > though, because “make dist” was not designed with that in mind. > > The non-source byproducts in release tarballs are: the pre-built .go > files (which are optional), psyntax-pp.scm, and then Info files and all > the autotools machinery. Are these those you had in mind?
If you haven't already seen it, I'd also suggest consulting https://reproducible-builds.org. They've been doing a lot of relevant heavy-lifting over the past few years (working on the relevant tools, generating patches or workarounds, etc.). Their diffoscope tool might also be of interest: https://reproducible-builds.org/tools/ -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
