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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Guix Devel" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Building Guile with ‘-j1’?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:01:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877do7gw4i.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1mgf19s.fsf@inria.fr>

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> As the saying goes, “the cobbler’s children go barefoot”.  Guile/Guix
> are no exception since Guile builds are non-reproducible, despite work
> done a few years ago:
>
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/20272
>
> Until it’s fixed in Guile proper, what do you think of building Guile
> 2.0/2.2/3.0 with #:parallel-build? #f ?  We could do that in
> ‘core-updates’ now.

Sounds good to me.  Given the nature of Guile's module system, it's
still not clear to me how to ensure reproducible builds of Guile modules
unless the order of compilation is deterministic.  I haven't thought
about it in a few years, though.

       Mark


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-20 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-20  8:41 Building Guile with ‘-j1’? Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-20 10:19 ` zimoun
2021-01-20 10:36 ` Gábor Boskovits
2021-01-20 12:16 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-20 21:01 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-01-21 15:17   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-01-28 13:35     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-28 18:43       ` Maxim Cournoyer

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