From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: maxima: Update to 5.39.0.
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 14:10:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161218191001.GA16797@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h961nl1j.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 07:34:32PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:
>
> >> I've found 'diffoscope' to be useful when troubleshooting
> >> reproducibility problems. E.g. by running it on two cancelled builds, or
> >> by installing to different output paths with a superficial change to the
> >> expression. It will show sections that differs which may aid locating
> >> the offending code.
> >>
> >
> > Yes. I see that diffoscope complains about missing 'xxd'. That may be
> > useful to package (unless we already have it and I'm just oblivious).
>
> 'xxd' is distributed with the 'vim' package. Is the error fatal? Perhaps
> we should patch diffoscope with the absolute path to xxd.
The warning message in the source code is:
"xxd not available in path. Falling back to Python hexlify."
So, I guess the built-in hexlify is a fine fall-back for now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-18 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-17 21:09 [PATCH] gnu: maxima: Update to 5.39.0 Kei Kebreau
2016-12-18 15:41 ` Marius Bakke
2016-12-18 17:59 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-12-18 18:34 ` Marius Bakke
2016-12-18 19:10 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-12-18 18:35 ` Leo Famulari
2016-12-19 4:50 ` Kei Kebreau
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