Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [Reproducible-builds] Trying to fix random_buildpath_by_octave

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> [2016-02-11 07:24]:

> * Oliver Heimlich <oheim@posteo.de> [2016-02-11 01:01]:
>
> > On 11.02.2016 00:23, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> >
> > > I guess that the build is unreproducible because the package with 
> > > debugging symbols, octave-interval-dbgsym, contains several 
> > > instances of the "/tmp/oct-XXXXXX" directory name.
> >
> > Yes, I guess that this is the reason.
> >
> > Compilation with
> >
> > octave \ 
> > 	--eval "function s = tempname (); persistent counter = 0; 
> > counter++; s               = strcat (tempdir, 'oct-', num2str 
> > (counter, '%06d')); endfunction;" \ 	--eval "pkg ('build' …)"
> >
> > should fix the non-deterministic directory names (in the log and for 
> > the dbgsyms).
>
> Would not this prevent the concurrent build of packages in the same 
> system?

Another question, related to the issue discussed in this thread: is there 
a tool to remove just the file paths inside an ELF binary?

Rafael