Re: reproducible built files

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 12/28/24 10:08, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>>> some 'make's treat
>>> equal timestamps as meaning the destination is out of date and needs
>>> to be rebuilt. (Although POSIX does not require this 'make' behavior,
>>> it encourages it.)
>> Which 'make' behave like that?
>
> AIX and HP-UX 'make', to my knowledge. I would be a bit surprised if
> there were no other such implementations, given POSIX's encouragement.

Interesting.  I tried on cfarm's AIX 7.1 and 7.3 with /usr/bin/make and
libidn and it worked fine.  It didn't try to rebuild the source code
generated by gengetopt or help2man etc.  I'm close to the release, so
I'll use this as an opportunity to see if this works in the wild...

/Simon

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