On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Brett Viren wrote: > To add, if deterministic builds were not possible it would mean this > could not exist: > > http://nixos.org/nix/
or that this website makes assertions not accurate There are timestamps and build IDs and more which, unless tinkered with, will mean that building ANY package at two different times will have (non-functional) differences that prevent an exact binary duplicate from ever existing. Similarly, with parallel threaded (-j N) build systems, a Makefile might comclude one time that sub-element FOO was done first, otehr times sub-element BAR, and so to traverse a build path in differing orders. Not anything invidious, but not 'identical' either -- Russ herrold
