Hi Chris, > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that > vmatch could not be built reproducibly. > > Patch attached that ensures that the vmrelease.h file does not contain > the build time and the hostname of the build system.
Thanks! > However, vmatch remains unreproducible even when this is applied. My > best guess at this moment is because it is not actually being built > with the -fdebug-prefix-map=... GCC argument in places: > > $ grep 'gcc ' build.log | grep -v prefix-map | wc -l > 348 > > … in other words, it is not respecting CFLAGS / dpkg-buildflags. There are a couple of other things in the build process I am also going to look at shortly. As you might have noticed, the package does not build on some archs due to -m32/-m64 mixups and situations where these should be dropped altogether. This is a result of upstream having autogenerated very specific build configurations for some archs, and I feel that these can and should be simplified quite a bit. I will address the flags as well when working on that -- thanks for pointing it out. Cheers Sascha
