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> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:59:58 +0100
> 
> For two successive installs from a clean checkout of the same git
> commit, emacs.pdmp ends up having slightly different size:
> 
> $ stat -c %s /usr/libexec/emacs/27.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp
> 10563744
> 
> $ stat -c %s /usr/libexec/emacs/27.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp
> 10563728
> 
> Why is that so? Shouldn't it be deterministic?

Please describe step by step what you did to produce each of the
installs.  The above is not detailed enough to understand what could
be the cause of the differences.