Joachim Breitner:
> > Good news is that in the set of 6887 source packages, there were many
> > Haskell packages which produced matching binary packages [2]:
> […]
> That’s not many comparted to the 600 we have...
177 packages with a name startig by haskell were tested. So yes,
progress can probably be made.
> > More puzzling are varations in GHC interface (.hi) and profiling (.p_hi)
> > files. See for example the `diffp` output of haskell-cipher-des which
> > shows both issues:
> > http://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/logs-20140126/haskell-cipher-des_0.0.6-1_unstable_build.diffp.gz
> > or haskell-setenv which only exhibits the problem with profiling files:
> > http://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/logs-20140126/haskell-setenv_0.1.0-2_unstable_build.diffp.gz
> >
> > Would you have any idea of what could make these files differ from one
> > build to another?
>
> The interface files contain for example the code for functions to be
> inlined, and that code can contain unique variable names generated by
> the compiler; there might be some randomness involved. The profiling
> data files contain even more data, so a higher risk of such data.
>
> Do you have the files somewhere? It would be most useful to compare the
> outputs of
> $ ghc --show-iface .....hi
> and see where exactly the difference comes from. If there is low hanging
> fruit, I can probably fix the compiler in that direction.
----- ./usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/setenv-0.1.0/ghc-7.6.3/System/SetEnv.p_hi
Binary file ./usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/setenv-0.1.0/ghc-7.6.3/System/SetEnv.p_hi differ
- interface hash: 1db1fab02627c0f77aa952b9554052b7
+ interface hash: 33614db8aba45095e66e4b1635e54661
These last two lines are the only difference when comparing the output
of `ghc --show-iface` on these files. Is it possible for the interface
hash computation to capture the path of the build or the current time?
It's been a while since I have not looked inside GHC source. I can have
a look but you might have better insights.
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