Re: options: Remove tool path to allow for reproducible builds

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 07:56 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> > By default gperf puts a header into generated files with the full path to
> > the tool along with the commandline used. This patch removes the path to
> > the binary which is arg[0]. This is so that build paths aren't encoded 
> > into source file output which allows for reproducible builds.
> 
> That's a nice improvement; thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> I took a different implementation, so that the change also works on Windows.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gperf.git;a=commitdiff;h=1862c6e57a308a05889c80c048dbc58bdc378dcb

Looks good, thanks! I've updated the patch being used in the Yocto
Project to match so we can help give it a little wider testing.

Cheers,

Richard