Ah, I see, so it was a topic in that direction :)
ELF format itself doesn't, by default, include information such as the
compilation timestamp, maybe.
Even code that uses preprocessor __DATE__ and __TIME__ won't be reproducible
unless we stop the clock, maybe.
At the very least, we can't make the parts involving such times match
perfectly, can we? :)
Regards.
On 2025/11/11 4:53, Charlie Li wrote:
cen wrote:
The goal is bit-for-bit reproducibility, "functionally" is not enough.
This is completely impossible for any operating system package distribution.
"Functionally" is the best you can get.
Consider that Python ports built under some CPython (ie Python from python dot org) almost always
