On the benefits and limits of incremental build of software configurations

Options Matter: Documenting and Fixing Non-Reproducible Builds in Highly-Configurable Systems

“…They found that 35.70% configurations fail and they identify the interactions that cause the errors using association rules and logs errors. Randrianaina et al [28,29] build configurations in an incremental way with the ambition of speeding up the build process. They observed that, in some settings, certain binaries differ, without delving into the identification of the specific options responsible for these differences.…”