Flashrom non-reproducible

[tlaurion]

@Tonux599 @Thrilleratplay @MrChromebox : comparing master build vs local build (both debian-10 based)

user@x230-master:~$ git clone https://github.com/osresearch/heads heads2
user@x230-master:~$ cd heads2
user@x230-master:~/heads2$ make BOARD=x230-hotp-maximized CPUS=2
user@x230-master:~/heads2$ wget https://277-64810881-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/build/x230-hotp-maximized/hashes.txt -O remote_hashes.txt
user@x230-master:~/heads2$ egrep '^[0-9a-f]{64}' build/x230-hotp-maximized/hashes.txt | while read line; do HASH_REF=$(echo $line|awk -F " " {'print $1'}); FILE_REF=$(echo $line|awk -F "/" {'print $NF'}); if ! grep -q "$HASH_REF" ./remote_hashes.txt; then echo "$FILE_REF doesn't match";fi; done
tools.cpio doesn't match
flashrom doesn't match
gawk doesn't match

Originally posted by @tlaurion in #927 (comment)

[MrChromebox]

able to extract the flashrom binary and vbindiff it with your locally built one? comparing one built within Heads to my local host shows that there are some embedded library paths that differ, so not hugely surprising to see it differ between a local Heads instance and a CI one

[osresearch]

Is flashrom still a problem? I just did a build on Fedora 33 and Ubuntu 20.04 and produced the same results. It looks like this might have been fixed in aba13a9 by pinning the module. I do not see any library paths embedded in the executable with strings -a.

[tlaurion]

Not in latest tests! Thanks @osresearch !