[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel.bbclass: improve reproducibility

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 May 2017 at 22:05, Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky at intel.com> wrote:

> Kernel and kernel modules contain hard coded paths referencing the host
> build system. This is usually because the source code contains __FILE__
> at some place. This prevents binary reproducibility. However, some
> compilers
> allow remapping of the __FILE__ value. If we detect the compiler is capable
> of doing this, we replace the source path $(S) part of __FILE__ by a
> string "/kernel-source".
> For example:
>

Is this not something we should do globally?

Ross
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