I fully endorse Celelibi's request to bring back the old "non
deterministic" behavior of ar as a default.
A similar conversation is taking place for the Fedora build
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195883
Cheers, Edo
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:39:51 +0200 Celelibi <celelibi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: binutils
> Version: 2.25.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> I noticed that recently, the ar tool has been updated and now has the D
> option is enabled by default. This option has the notable effect of
> setting the timestamp of the files in the generated archive to 0.
>
> This has a bad interaction with 'make' since it needs to read that
> timestamp in order to decide whether to rebuild the files in the archive
> or not.
>
> It is not possible to add the U option by default as it seems quite new
> and not backward compatible. Should this U option be included in a
> Makefile, older versions of ar would reject it and fail. It is thus no
> longer possible to write a correct Makefile using archive members.
>
> Getting back to the old behavior that always write the correct timestamp
> would solve this problem at no cost.
>
> This bug is related (and probably replaces) bug #798804.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Celelibi
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.10.11 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>
> Versions of packages binutils depends on:
> ii libc6 2.19-19
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> binutils recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages binutils suggests:
> pn binutils-doc <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>