On 3/25/11 6:31 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>>> One has to be cautious about the bootstrap environment, to make sure
>>> that the libraries available in your "mock" or other build
>>> environments are the same libraries. Red Hat seems to be very, very
>>> good about this.
>>
>> It is not that they are good, they are the authority. Whatever library
>> version happened to be in their build root when the linkage was done is
>> correct by definition even if it isn't what you get when you build that
>> library from source and/or it isn't specified as a dependency.
>
> And they're very good about making sure that they've correctly
> "bootstrapped" their systems, that their "build" environment matches
> the components of the available, rebuilt packages.
If that were true, you should be able to duplicate their linkages exactly by
priming the 1st build run with (all of) their binaries, then rebuilding with
your own output results instead. But then everything would be done by now. So
I don't think that's true.
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Les Mikesell
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