[bug#48721] [PATCH v2] gnu: gcc-8: Make static libs reproducible

[Carl Dong]

Ah I see… In that case I think perhaps the patch is good.

Would it be okay to push just the gcc-8 patch and leave the rest (gcc <= v7) to 
be patch on an as-needed basis?

Cheers,
Carl Dong
contact@carldong.me

> On Jun 11, 2021, at 2:07 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me> skribis:
> 
>>> Oh.  (I suppose GCC doesn’t have a single ‘ltmain.sh’ that we could
>>> patch instead of all these ‘configure’ scripts, right?)
>> Hmmm, are you suggesting that we just patch the libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh, 
>> and then autoreconf -vfi for the GCC packages?
> 
> No, running ‘autoreconf’ would complicate things.
> 
> But if it happens that the same effect could be achieved by modifying a
> single ‘ltmain.sh’ file, as was done in
> b6094b1f0a6760b9f5296364cf5edb8a2e64953c, that’s better than modifying
> all the ‘configure’ scripts.
> 
> Maybe it’s not possible though, in which case the patch you posted is
> perfect.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 
> 
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