Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Use C locale when setting CC_VERSION_STRING and LD_VERSION_STRING.

12 Jun 2016


      On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 06:07:07AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
...
The output reported may be locale-dependent, which results in
unreproducible builds.
$ LANG=C ld --version | head -n 1
    GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.26
$ LANG=it_CH.UTF-8 ld --version | head -n 1
    ld di GNU (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.26
Forcing LC_ALL=C ensures the output is consistant regardless of the
build environment.
Thanks to HW42 for debugging the issue:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20...
For more information about reproducible builds:
https://reproducible-builds.org/
Signed-off-by: Vagrant Cascadian vagrant@debian.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com
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Tom