On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:27:46 -0400, Scot Mc Pherson <scot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > I accidentally sent this to Scot off-list since I am still forgetting to reply all and remove the sender in gmail. Sorry Scot. So, since this has been on a freshly installed and updated fedora core 2 system, a fully updated fedora core 1 system and a fedora core 3 test 2 system, does this mean that generally the toolchains are damaged in these systems? I have not changed any of the compilers, linkers etc. Do others have this same issue in fedora? I don't see anything in bugzilla about it. -- matt whiteley <mattwhiteley@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
