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gdk-pixbuf@2.34.0 does not build deterministically

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 25414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25414: gdk-pixbuf <at> 2.34.0 does not build deterministically
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:16:04 +0100

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:06:42 +0100
> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> Presumably ‘gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders’, which generates ‘loaders.cache’,
>> does not sort the entries returned by readdir(2).
>
> Yep.
>
> gdk-pixbuf/queryloaders.c line 355 uses g_dir_open.
>
> Docs: https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-File-Utilities.html#g-dir-open "Note that the ordering is not defined."
>
> One could use g_list_append to append it to a list and then g_list_sort and then g_list_free. Like below (untested! Seriously!):

Sounds like the right approach, would you like to test it?  :-)

Ludo’.

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