Hi, Subsequent runs of "make dist" in the same environment produce tarballs with different contents.
How to reproduce: In a git checkout of coreutils, do: $ echo snapshot > .tarball-version $ ./configure; make -k maintainer-clean $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure; make dist $ mkdir 1; (cd 1 && tar xf ../*.tar.gz) $ make; make dist $ mkdir 2; (cd 2 && tar xf ../*.tar.gz) $ diff -r -q 1 2 The last command produces a difference: $ diff -r -q 1 2 Files 1/coreutils-snapshot/.timestamp and 2/coreutils-snapshot/.timestamp differ $ cat 1/coreutils-snapshot/.timestamp 1721577765 $ cat 2/coreutils-snapshot/.timestamp 1721577832 Can this be avoided? Can the contents of '.timestamp' always be the same? (Wouldn't it be enough to give it a different modification time, each time?) Bruno
