[Pkg-octave-devel] [Reproducible-builds] Trying to fix random_buildpath_by_octave

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Oliver Heimlich <oheim at posteo.de> [2016-02-11 01:01]:

> On 11.02.2016 00:23, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>
>> I guess that the build is unreproducible because the package with 
>> debugging symbols, octave-interval-dbgsym, contains several instances of 
>> the "/tmp/oct-XXXXXX" directory name.
>
> Yes, I guess that this is the reason.
>
> Compilation with
>
>  octave \
> 	--eval "function s = tempname (); persistent counter = 0; counter++; s 
>               = strcat (tempdir, 'oct-', num2str (counter, '%06d')); endfunction;" \ 
> 	--eval "pkg ('build' …)"
>
> should fix the non-deterministic directory names (in the log and for the 
> dbgsyms).

Would not this prevent the concurrent build of packages in the same 
system?

Rafael