Unverified Commit 37fac070 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada Committed by Nathan Chancellor
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Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds 



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: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250924-kbuild-doc-config-debug-efi-in-reproducible-builds-v2-1-d2d6b9dcdb7d@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
parent c7d3dd91

Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst

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The Reproducible Builds web site has more information about these

`prefix-map options`_.



Some CONFIG options such as `CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI` embed absolute paths in

object files. Such options should be disabled.



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