Re: [bug-gettext] Reproducible builds and .mo file endianness

2016-01-15 Thread Bruno Haible
Daiki Ueno wrote: > Thanks, well said and the patch looks good. Could you install it? I've pushed it. Bruno

Re: [bug-gettext] Reproducible builds and .mo file endianness

2016-01-14 Thread Daiki Ueno
Bruno Haible writes: >> Would you please reconsider about msgfmt default behaviour? > > Yes. And since the industry trend of endianness goes in favour of little- > endian CPUs (even PowerPC and ARM now exist in little-endian flavour), > the default behaviour should be to generate little-endian .m

Re: [bug-gettext] Reproducible builds and .mo file endianness

2016-01-14 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Santiago, Daiki, > I believe you might have heard about the "reproducible builds" effort: > > https://reproducible-builds.org/ Yes. This effort is said to be important for GNU. While some GNU packages (like emacs or clisp) will have a hard time to achieve this goal, for GNU gettext it is w

[bug-gettext] Reproducible builds and .mo file endianness

2016-01-04 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello again. I believe you might have heard about the "reproducible builds" effort: https://reproducible-builds.org/ There is a thing which we have not tested yet but I hope that will be tested some day: Architecture-independent packages created from a given source package should ideally not dep