On Jul 24, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Edwina Ng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have extracted the configuration of /netbsd after a vanilla installation > with config(1), then untar the syssrc.tgz from source/sets and build the > kernel. The file netbsd generated in the build directory is not the same file > size as the one in the root directory. > > I save the kernel that I have built, delete the build directory and started > again afresh. The resultant netbsd has the same file size of the previous one > yet, cmp(1) says there are some different. > > So my question is, given the same source, same kernel config file, same tool > chain and same platform, is that possible for two systems to produce > identical compiled kernel images? If not, what is the reason? If yes, which > step did I miss? you probably need MKREPRO=yes when building the kernel to remove things like dates and stuff.
