reproducibility: introduce config knob

Making the builds reproducible involves turning off build timestamps,
which some users may find annoying. So make the reproducible builds
optional.

Signed-off-by: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
index 820b1f0945..bbe2bc3cf2 100644
--- a/Config.in
+++ b/Config.in
@@ -728,6 +728,17 @@ config BR2_COMPILER_PARANOID_UNSAFE_PATH
 
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+config BR2_REPRODUCIBLE
+	bool "Make the build reproducible (experimental)"
+        help
+          This option will remove all sources of non-reproducibility
+          from the build process. For a given Buildroot configuration,
+          this allows to generate exactly identical binaries from one
+          build to the other, including on different machines.
+
+          This is labeled as an experimental feature, as not all
+          packages behave properly to ensure reproducibility.
+
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 source "toolchain/Config.in"