Subject: Re: [bug#28017] [PATCH] Reproducible issue for skalibs
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Z. Ren" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:59:18 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

"Z. Ren" <[email-masked]> skribis:

> While conducting a study inspired by the "reproducible builds" practice [1], we have noticed that the package skalibs could not be built reproducibly.
>
> After investigation, we observe that the unreproducibility is caused by "Makefile", in which the order of ALL_SRCS is not sorted. Consequently, the file order of the library files "lib/{libskarnet.so.2.3.10.0, skalibs/libskarnet.a}" may not be deterministic.

Indeed.  Pushed with slight reindentation and a commit message that
follows our conventions.

Thank you!

Ludo’.