Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20051024064605.A44523 at cons.org>
            Martin Cracauer <cracauer at cons.org> writes:
: Peter Jeremy wrote on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:11PM +1000: 
: > On Sun, 2005-Oct-23 16:29:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
: > >We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
: > >We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
: > >built.
: > 
: > At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).
: 
: ELF object files are timestamped.  But there's some elf-cmp out there.

Elf .o's are timestampped, but Elf executables are 100% reproducible,
except when people go out of their way to not make them so.  Like
adding the date or person builder.

Warner