Re: Fixing non-reproducibility in some guile packages

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Christopher Allan Webber writes:

Hi!

> I think this is a pretty serious bug.  It means that guile-gdbm-ffi was
> never properly reproducible by our standard methods of determining
> inputs.  This is entirely my fault, since I'm the one who put together
> these packages.
>
> The guile-wisp package also has this issue.  I'm going to work on a fix
> for it.  In the meanwhile, here's a patch that both fixes
> guile2.2-gdbm-ffi and fixes the forementioned reproducibility problem.

While building guile2.2-gdbm-ffi an error is printed that does not
prevent the package from being built

     @ build-started /gnu/store/z9m20fz1ayyl0g9b4ad6wgmq3fv2h7gi-guile2.2-gdbm-ffi-20120209.fa1d5b6.drv - x86_64-linux /var/log/guix/drvs/z9//m20fz1ayyl0g9b4ad6wgmq3fv2h7gi-guile2.2-gdbm-ffi-20120209.fa1d5b6.drv.bz2
     ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
     ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
     ;;; compiling /gnu/store/d3gli8g5bv6yhd3qwk5rfzqpsfvnj4lv-guile-next-2.1.5/bin/guild
     ;;; WARNING: compilation of /gnu/store/d3gli8g5bv6yhd3qwk5rfzqpsfvnj4lv-guile-next-2.1.5/bin/guild failed:
     ;;; ERROR: failed to create path for auto-compiled file "/gnu/store/d3gli8g5bv6yhd3qwk5rfzqpsfvnj4lv-guile-next-2.1.5/bin/guild"
     wrote `/gnu/store/xskgkfsxz936nifjs8vxqwk95kf62ia8-guile2.2-gdbm-ffi-20120209.fa1d5b6/share/guile/site/2.2/gdbm.go'
     @ build-succeeded /gnu/store/z9m20fz1ayyl0g9b4ad6wgmq3fv2h7gi-guile2.2-gdbm-ffi-20120209.fa1d5b6.drv -
     /gnu/store/xskgkfsxz936nifjs8vxqwk95kf62ia8-guile2.2-gdbm-ffi-20120209.fa1d5b6
     22:00:06 janneke@dundal:~/src/guix

The builds are not reproducible, but I guess that's expected because
guile-2.0.12 is used and guile-2.1.x is not patched to be reproducible
yet.

Greetings, janneke

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