On Thu, Feb 05, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 12:45 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > When building stubdom the mini-os objects are also linked into the > > binary. Unfortunately the linker will place them in the order found in > > the archive. Since this order is random the resulting stubdom binary > > differs when it was built from identical sources but on different > > build hosts. To help with creating a reproducible binary the elements > > in an archive must simply be sorted before passing them to $(AR). > > OOI why does this problem not also apply the to the regular .a and .so > files we build?
Either because they are built from a fixed list of input files, or the linker places the individual object files in a fixed order into shared objects. Olaf _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
