#10898 NORM Not Tri: prelink has non-deterministic output

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#10898: prelink has non-deterministic output
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 Reporter:  dsd           |                 Owner:  dsd          
     Type:  defect        |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  build-system  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0             |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                |              Blocking:               
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 Currently, prelink is run during the build process (but it may be
 temporarily disabled as a result of this issue).

 Unfortunately, because prelink's output is non-deterministic due to the
 fact it puts a timestamp of the current time in the output file, it means
 all libraries change from one OS build to the next. These deltas mean that
 olpc-update between similar builds requires a lot more disk space than
 otherwise, and this means that olpc-update can't be run on XO-1 with
 current 11.2.0 images as there isn't enough disk space available.

 I'm attaching a prelink patch which allows the user to specify a fixed
 timestamp to put in the files, but it remains to be seen what upstream
 says about this (waiting for reply).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10898>
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