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Re: Rebuilding Cygwin From Sources
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, CARTER Alan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Perhaps someone who knows can confirm that I've got this right:
>
> The executables in a Cygwin download can be much older than the download
> date, where "much" > 3 years.
>
> This suggests that executables are only rebuilt when their own sources
> change. Previously built executables can continue to be bundled into
> downloadable packages, even if the version of gcc in the download is
> much newer.
>
> Therefore, it is not reasonable to attempt to rebuild the executables in
> a download using the sources and gcc in the same download, and expect an
> *exact* reconstruction.
>
> (And that's before thinking about the compilation date strings that end
> up in the executables, or the CFLAGS arguments to the various configure
> scripts which also aren't necessarily obvious.)
>
> If I know an exact rebuild isn't possible, I won't try to achieve it
> before kludging the source :-)
An exact rebuild *is* possible, if you can reconstruct the exact
environment (package versions, variables, etc) the maintainer had on her
machine when she built the package. Otherwise, it's not.
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You might want to lobby with your IT people to lose the disclaimer, which
is void anyway.
HTH,
Igor
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