Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,

On 6/25/25 5:57 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> CONFIG_EFI_DEBUG embeds absolute file paths into object files, which
> makes the resulting vmlinux specific to the build environment.
> 
> Add a note about this in reproducible-builds.rst
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
> index f2dcc39044e6..7a16dbc275ca 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
> @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ supported.
>  The Reproducible Builds web site has more information about these
>  `prefix-map options`_.
>  
> +Some CONFIG options such as `CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI` embeds absolute paths in

               options                            embed

> +object files. Such options should be disabled.
> +
>  Generated files in source packages
>  ----------------------------------
>  

-- 
~Randy