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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40459: Non-reproducible behaviour in libtool < 2.2.7b
 bootstrapped ltmain.sh
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:21:22 +0200
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To: Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me>
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Hello!

Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me> skribis:

> While investigating a libstdc++.a reproducibility issue, I found that
> libtool prior to 74c8993c (first included in version 2.2.7b, link:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=3D74c8993c178a13=
86ea5e2363a01d919738402f30)
> did not sort find output.

Right, good ol=E2=80=99days!

> It seems that many packages (including all released gcc versions so
> far) are bootstrapped with a libtool < 2.2.7b.

Ouch, I didn=E2=80=99t expect this.

> There are probably many ways to approach this, and I propose that we coul=
d simply use a somewhat strict regex find and replace on ltmain.sh.

Yes, we could add a standard build phase to do that.  We just need to
make sure we get the regexp right so it doesn=E2=80=99t break newer =E2=80=
=98ltmain.sh=E2=80=99
scripts.

WDYT?

Ludo=E2=80=99.