[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [build] sort objects in blib.a

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Thu Feb 12 10:27:41 UTC 2015


On 10/02/15 15:18, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> When building hvmloader for Xen tools the ipxe objects are also linked
>> into the binary. Unfortunately the linker will place them in the order
>> found in the archive. Since this order is random the resulting
>> hvmloader binary differs when it was built from identical sources but
>> on different build hosts. To help with creating a reproducible binary
>> the elements in blib.a must simply be sorted before passing them to
>> $(AR).
>
> Ping?

Applied, thanks:

   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/335a7dd

Michael



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