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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Architecture independent binaries and building from source
From:       Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2004-08-13 2:54:23
Message-ID: 20040813025423.GA3636 () andromeda
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:25:10PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> Well said.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:55:40PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > On Tue August 10, 2004 13h14, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > Roland Stigge wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Hence, please don't do that, but compile it from the provided source,
> > > always.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > 	Joey
> > > 
> > 

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:25:10PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> derivitive forms is okay.  Indeed, in the case of java, I don't think it
> will matter 0.02 worth who compiles it.  Java is reverse compilable, so
> I think the bytecode will be the same either way.  Can someone confirm
> this?  Then, it'd be nice if we could allow for upstream binaries to be

I just confirmed that java bytecode _can_ vary.  Two compilations with
sun's compiler resulted in identical output, but the output was
different than that produced by kaffe (which also produced two identical
binaries).

Justin

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