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fdfawef324andClaude Opus 5.5 2251649a7f build(libs): keep import libraries stable so a source edit relinks one library
Every library under core/libs/prx links the libc and libkernel import
libraries, and every NID patch step depended on the unpatched libc.prx.
GNU ld 2.46 rewrites the import library on every link with new archive
timestamps (the member headers and the symbol map header), so the restat
on the link edge never pruned anything: one libc or libkernel .cpp edit
relinked all 124 libraries and re-patched all of them.

On MinGW the shared library link now writes the import library to
<implib>.new with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 (ld then writes zero member
timestamps), makes the symbol map deterministic with ranlib -D and copies
the result over the import library only when its bytes differ
(cmake -E copy_if_different). The link edge keeps restat, so a link that
keeps the exports leaves the import library untouched and prunes every
dependent link. The SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH also zeroes the export directory
TimeDateStamp of the DLL; the COFF header TimeDateStamp that the unwinder
keys on is unchanged.

The NID patch steps only use the names libc exports. nid_patcher
--write-export-list writes those names, normalized and sorted, to
libc.exports and leaves the file untouched when they did not change; the
patch steps read it with --preserve-export-list and depend on it instead
of libc.prx, on every platform. A patched library is byte-identical to
one patched against libc.prx.

Measured on Windows (GCC 15.2, -j 4, loaded machine) after touching
libc/src/Strings.cpp: with CMAKE_LINK_DEPENDS_NO_SHARED off, 124 links and
124 patches in 74.9 s before, 1 compile, 1 link, the export list and the
libc patch in 4.3 s after; with it on, 124 patches in 7.8 s before and
the same four steps in 5.3 s after. Touching libkernel/Time/Time.cpp
runs 123 links and 123 patches (89.1 s) before and one compile, link and
patch (3.4 s) after. Removing a libc export still relinks and re-patches
all 124 libraries.

nid_patcher_macho covers --write-export-list (sorted normalized names, no
rewrite when unchanged, rewrite when changed) and --preserve-export-list
(the same exports kept as with --preserve-exports; malformed lists and
two references refused). It fails on main, where the option is unknown.

Sources: SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/;
ranlib -D and ld --out-implib, GNU binutils documentation; ninja restat,
https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#ref_rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-13 22:43:05 -04:00
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