Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I did read that one of the points of rpm packaging was to have
> repeatable package builds. While this doesn't seem to fit this scenario,
> perhaps it is normal when re-compiling an i386 package on an AMD Athlon
> with possibly updated libraries / compilers etc (from mock devel as
> well) that the built binaries would change (eg, even if it was just text
> fields like:
> # abcdtool
> Built on blah machine on Fri blah) ?
elfutils has a tool to compare two binaries and see if they're different
for real; eg ignoring usual "elf noise" ;)
OK,
# eu-elfcmp ncopy mock/ncopy
eu-elfcmp: ncopy mock/ncopy differ: symbol table [4]
Can someone offer an interpretation of this ?
DaveT.