FYI: WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD= problem for some files?

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 23:50:33 -0700
I did 2 test buildworld's based on:

# ~/fbsd-based-on-what-freebsd.sh 
branch: releng/13.0
merge-base: ea31abc261ffc01b6ff5671bffb15cf910a07f4b
merge-base: CommitDate: 2021-04-09 00:14:30 +0000
ea31abc261ff (HEAD -> releng/13.0, tag: release/13.0.0, freebsd/releng/13.0) 13.0: update to RELEASE
n244733 (--first-parent --count for merge-base)

and produced separate build trees. I also installed the
world build into two separate directory trees:

/usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/
vs.
/usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/

This was for other reasons. But eventually I happened
to do a diff -rq of the two trees and ended up with
the output showing some differing files:

Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/sbin/ping and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/sbin/ping differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/sbin/ping6 and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/sbin/ping6 differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/bin/ntpq and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/bin/ntpq differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/lib/debug/sbin/ping.debug and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/lib/debug/sbin/ping.debug differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/ntpd.debug and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/ntpd.debug differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/lib/debug/usr/tests/sbin/ping/in_cksum_test.debug and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/lib/debug/usr/tests/sbin/ping/in_cksum_test.debug differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/sbin/ntp-keygen and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/sbin/ntp-keygen differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/sbin/ntpd and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/sbin/ntpd differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/sbin/ntpdate and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/sbin/ntpdate differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/sbin/ntpdc and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/sbin/ntpdc differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/sbin/sntp and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/sbin/sntp differ
Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/usr/tests/sbin/ping/in_cksum_test and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/usr/tests/sbin/ping/in_cksum_test differ

(That is all.)

For as much as I've looked at (not much), it looks to be
variations in byte-padding values.

The builds both were set up to tune for cortex-a7 explicitly.
I patch top's source code. I patch the OOM kill code to report
the specific reason for a kill. I still have some bcm2838
pci/xhci patching in place from an old investigation, but
that would be kernel code. None of the patching is specific
to the above list of files.

The hosting context was:

# uname -apKU
FreeBSD CA72_4c8G_ZFS 13.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE #1 releng/13.0-n244733-ea31abc261ff-dirty: Wed Apr 28 05:45:27 PDT 2021     root_at_CA72_4c8G_ZFS:/usr/obj/BUILDs/13_0R-CA72-nodbg-clang/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC-NODBG-CA72  arm64 aarch64 1300139 1300139

based on building the same source code (tuning for
cortex-a72).

It was the same media for all the activity. Unlike
the past many years for me, the context is using ZFS
instead of UFS, not that I think that makes a
difference here.

The differences do not mess up my activity but others
might notice and care about such differences.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)
Received on Thu Apr 29 2021 - 04:50:39 UTC

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