RFR: 8276743: Make openjdk build Zip Archive generation "reproducible"

[Andrew Leonard]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 14:04:27 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I think it would it make sense add a configure parameter to to enable/disable this new functionality. I think developers would want to opt out of extra unnecessary build steps when building and testing locally. Not sure what the default should be. For other reproducible measures, we require active enabling today. Maybe default on for release builds and off for debug builds.

@erikj79 so I was hoping to not add another configure arg, when the intentions of this should just all be positive, ordered&deterministic. Also @magicus I get the impression from your comments that we don't really want to end up with in order to build reproducibly you have to specify all these options x,y,z,...
Maybe we should just have one big flag --with-reproducible-build ?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6311