On Saturday 16 October 2004 05:58 am, matt whiteley wrote: > As an introduction, I have been building a few rpms for about two > years now for personal use. Now that I am having to create them for > work, I am trying to learn more about them. I just spent a day > figuring out that the default strip post command was causing the > binary I had to be invalid. That was a fun one to figure out. > > My question is this: Why is the rpm produced from a .spec file differ > in multiple build attemps? > > What I mean is that I repeatedly built the same file from a .spec and > each time it had a varrying size and md5sum. I am curious as to what > might cause this. (hopefully I am not missing something terribly > obvious). > > thanks, Generally this means you have an unstable toolchain. When all things are equal the toolchain should produce the same output every time. When I build glibc several time, my files are always the same from one build to the next unless I change something. Try rebuilding binutils, gcc and glibc a few times until they settle into producing consistent code. -- Scot Mc Pherson scot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linuxfromscratch.org/~scot http://beewiki.linuxfromscratch.org AIM: ScotLFS ICQ: 342949 MSN:behomet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
