Binary Updates for DragonFly

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

Alex Neundorf wrote:
>> As soon as you compile stuff, you probably will get different binaries.
>> If you update the kernel, you need to update the userland as well.
>>
>> If we had a way to identify from which sources a binary was compiled
>> from, we could do upgrades more easily.  Maybe enhance gcc to include a
>> checksum of the sources into the object?
> I'm not sure this would be enough.
> The stuff could be compiled with other features enabled (which use other
> libs), other compiler/linker options, so it has different dependencies etc.

changed options usually change the sources, i.e. config.h or -Defines=
will change the preprocessed source code.  Maybe I should have
explicitly mentioned this:  I was thinking about the preprocessed source
code (the stuff cc1 works on).

Statically linking with a different binary will produce a different list
of objects.  Dynamically linking should be no problem, unless you link
to different libraries.

Compiler options could indeed a problem, but then, which options
influence the binary and shouldn't be ignored?  The only thing I can
think of is the stack protector, for instance, which in turn will lead
to different link lists.

cheers
  simon

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