Source: tclap Severity: normal Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: buildpath usrmerge shell X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
The build path, several binary paths, and the value of the SHELL variable are embedded in example Makefiles shipped in the package: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/i386/diffoscope-results/tclap.html /usr/share/doc/libtclap-dev/docs/Makefile.gz AUTOMAKE·=·${SHELL}·'/build/1st/tclap-1.2.4/config/missing'·automake-1.16 vs. AUTOMAKE·=·${SHELL}·'/build/2/tclap-1.2.4/2nd/config/missing'·automake-1.16 GREP·=·/bin/grep vs. GREP·=·/usr/bin/grep SHELL·=·/bin/bash vs. SHELL·=·/bin/sh Since these values may differ with the installed system, in order to use the example Makefiles, a person would have to regenerate them from Makefile.am or Makefile.in, which are also provided. The attached patch removes the Makefiles in debian/rules. If that is somehow not an option, an alternate option would be to sanitize the Makefiles stripping the build path (or replacing with /usr/src?), and possibly passing various variables to configure (e.g. GREP=/bin/grep, SHELL=/bin/sh, ...). Thanks for maintaining tclap! live well, vagrant
From 08de495eeae4305e7e68486e69b8b830e39e4797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@reproducible-builds.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:21:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] debian/rules: Remove example Makefiles for reproducible
builds.
The shipped Makefiles embed build paths, the content of the SHELL
variable, and paths to various binaries (e.g. /bin/grep
vs. /usr/bin/grep).
---
debian/rules | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 4c64ef9..b849adf 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ override_dh_installdocs:
dh_installdocs
# edd 10 Jun 2011 prune CVS directory
find debian/ -name CVS -type d | xargs rm -rf
+ # Remove example Makefiles for reproducible builds as they
+ # embed the build path, SHELL and various paths to utilities
+ find debian/ -name Makefile -type f | xargs rm -f
override_dh_auto_test:
echo "Skipping checks for now"
--
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