Source: ocaml Version: 4.01.0 Severity: wishlist User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: randomness X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that ocamlopt relies on temporary files whose names are generated randomly and are part of the output files' symbols. Therefore, we need a way to make these names determinist. For instance, reading an environment variable in the main function of ocamlopt (driver/optmain.ml) and calling “Random.seed 0” if it is set would be perfect. Using OCAMLPARAM (driver/compenv.ml) would work as well. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds Regards, Valentin
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