Perry, please could you answer this question. --apb (Alan Barrett)
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > As indicated, I see nothing wrong with a MKDETERMINISTIC that > > flips the MKARZERO flag as well as the other flags that control > > deterministic builds, but we need this particular feature to have a > > knob on its own. > > I see a need for a flag (let's call it "MKDETERMINISTIC"), which would > turn on the deterministic ar behaviour, and also turn on other things > related to deterministic builds. I see a need for third party software > to be able to use such a MKDETERMINISTIC flag. What I don't see is > why either NetBSD or third party software would need the ability to > turn on the deterministic ar behaviour without also turning on other > deterministic behaviour. > > Could you give an example of a situation in which third party software > would want to turn on MKARZERO, but would not want to turn on other > things implied by MKDETERMINISTIC? > > --apb (Alan Barrett)
