Add an option to dlltool to allow the creation of deterministic libraries.

	PR 29489
	* dlltool.c (deterministic): New variable.
	(gen_lib_file): If deterministic is true set the
	BFD_DETERMINISTIC_OUTPUT flag.
	(usage): Mention --deterministic-libraries and
	--non-deterministic-libraries.
	(long_options): Add new options.
	(main): Parse new options.
	* doc/binutils.texi: Document the new options.
	* NEWS: Mention the new feature.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 41f38f4..f61a619 100644
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -4510,6 +4510,7 @@ dlltool [@option{-d}|@option{--input-def} @var{def-file-name}]
         [@option{-v}|@option{--verbose}]
         [@option{-h}|@option{--help}] [@option{-V}|@option{--version}]
         [@option{--no-leading-underscore}] [@option{--leading-underscore}]
+        [@option{--deterministic-libraries}] [@option{--non-deterministic-libraries}]
         [object-file @dots{}]
 @c man end
 @end smallexample
@@ -4629,6 +4630,14 @@ Specifies the name of the library file to be created by dlltool.
 @itemx --output-delaylib @var{filename}
 Specifies the name of the delay-import library file to be created by dlltool.
 
+@item --deterministic-libraries
+@itemx --non-deterministic-libraries
+When creating output libraries in response to either the
+@option{--output-lib} or @option{--output-delaylib} options either use
+the value of zero for any timestamps, user ids and group ids created
+(@option{--deterministic-libraries}) or the actual timestamps, user
+ids and group ids (@option{--non-deterministic-libraries}).
+
 @item --export-all-symbols
 Treat all global and weak defined symbols found in the input object
 files as symbols to be exported.  There is a small list of symbols which