Subject: Re: bug#68748: cuirass is not reproducible

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 13:06:47 -0500

Hi Vagrant,

Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 2024-01-26, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:
>>> Building cuirass with 'guix build --no-grafts --check -K cuirass' shows
>>> it has differences.  Then running
>>
>> I think this is not particular to cuirass but more to any Guile package.
>> I've found similar issues with guile-git and mumi.  It seems Guile
>> has either regressed or never supported byte compiling reproducibly?
>
> This looks very much like:
>
>   https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/nondeterministic_ordering_in_guile_binaries_issue.html
>
> Which links to several relevent issues in debian, nix, guix, and
> opensuse:
>
>   https://bugs.debian.org/995092
>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/78778
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/20272
>   https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/732638

Indeed, thank you.  It seems the issue is a long standing one for Guile,
as you linked above with #20272 (9 years old!).

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Thanks,
Maxim