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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:39:55PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>This is not as bad as the programs that use __DATE__ or __TIME__, or
>generate a version.c file whose version changes on every recompile, so
>that repeated buildworlds cannot produce the same result twice.

The kernel 'version' is annoying because not only does it change on
every kernel compile but when it goes from 9 to 10 the string length
changes.

> There are also timestamps in *.a, but these files are easier to ignore.

At least they are in a fixed location and a comparison program can
be trained to ignore them.

Peter