Hi there,
On 16 June 2021 at 13:52, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: | 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. Let me try that! I presume we want an upload to experimental? Thanks for looking into this! Dirk | 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" | -- | 2.20.1 | | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT signature.asc, application/pgp-signature] -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
