Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2007 23:06:22 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Rebuilding and checksumming the Linux kernel |
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:56:30PM -0300, Edgardo Hames wrote: > I'm working on a project with teams spread across the world and we all > work on the same repository patching the kernel and then integrating > into a common main branch. Even though we label the source code, we > would like to make sure that we are all building the same kernel by > running md5sum on the resulting binary. > > Right now, this is not possible because the kernel includes a > timestamp and a build number on the binary. What are this timestamps > used for? Can we just remove them? Is there any other thing that may > lead to different binaries? (we are using the exact toolchains and > build machines, so we can assume that the same executable is generated > if the input source is the same).
Soon you will be able to say:
KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="2007-02-30 01:02.03" KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION=99 make
It will hit -mm soon and mainline in next merge window. Patch is in kbuild.git at git.kernel.org.
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