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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2016-12-07 15:40:45 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2016-12-07 16:21:14 +0100
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Add option 'deterministic' for reproducible builds
Add the option 'deterministic' to make it easier to achieve reproducible builds. This option omits the {options,...} and {source,...} tuples in M:module_info(compile), because those options may contain absolute paths. The author of ERL-310 suggested that only compiler options that may contain absolute paths (such as {i,...}) should be excluded. But I find it confusing to keep only some options. Alternatives considered: Always omitting this information. Since this information has been available for a long time, that would probably break some workflows. As an example that some people care about {source,...}, 2d785c07fbf9 made it possible to give a compiler option to set {source,...}. ERL-310
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<seealso marker="stdlib:beam_lib#debug_info">beam_lib(3)</seealso>.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>deterministic</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Omit the <c>options</c> and <c>source</c> tuples in
+ the list returned by <c>Module:module_info(compile)</c>.
+ This option will make it easier to achieve reproducible builds.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+
<tag><c>makedep</c></tag>
<item>
<p>Produces a Makefile rule to track headers dependencies.