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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: maxima: Update to 5.39.0.
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 19:34:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h961nl1j.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shpl2k56.fsf@openmailbox.org>

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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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-18 18:34 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 [this message]
2016-12-18 19:10       ` Leo Famulari
2016-12-18 18:35     ` Leo Famulari
2016-12-19  4:50       ` Kei Kebreau

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