[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use more fixed strings to build the hypervisor

2014-11-18 Thread Olaf Hering
It is expected that repeated builds of identical sources results in identical binaries on different hosts at different build times. This fails for xen.gz and xen.efi because unstable strings are included in the binaries. In addition to existing variables use XEN_BUILD_DATE, XEN_BUILD_TIME and

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use more fixed strings to build the hypervisor

2014-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Olaf Hering writes ([PATCH] xen: use more fixed strings to build the hypervisor): It is expected that repeated builds of identical sources results in identical binaries on different hosts at different build times. This fails for xen.gz and xen.efi because unstable strings are included in the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: use more fixed strings to build the hypervisor

2014-11-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Nov 18, Ian Jackson wrote: How about It should be possible to repeatedly build identical sources and get identical binaries, even on different hosts at different build times. This fails [etc. etc. ...] Provide variables XEN_BUILD_DATE, XEN_BUILD_TIME and