Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:17:29 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: cracauer@cons.org Cc: PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au, delphij@delphij.net, developers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary? Message-ID: <20051025.231729.26928360.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20051024064605.A44523@cons.org> References: <20051023232935.GC602@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051024080811.GF39882@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20051024064605.A44523@cons.org>
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Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> writes:
: Peter Jeremy wrote on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:11PM +1000:
: > On Sun, 2005-Oct-23 16:29:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
: > >We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
: > >We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
: > >built.
: >
: > At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).
:
: ELF object files are timestamped. But there's some elf-cmp out there.
Elf .o's are timestampped, but Elf executables are 100% reproducible,
except when people go out of their way to not make them so. Like
adding the date or person builder.
Warner
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