Updating dpkg-buildflags to enable reproducible=+fixfilepath by default
Stuart Prescott
stuart at debian.org
Sun Jan 10 13:48:42 GMT 2021
Sune Stolborg Vuorela wrote:
> Can you provide some kind of hook in the environment so we at least can work
> around it in the users, so that the internal functions (where the output of
> __FILE__ is forwarded to) can glue e.g. the content of an environment
> variable in front of the usage of the __FILE__ content to try to
> reconstruct it at runtime, so that all packages doesn't need to do export
> SOURCE_BASE_DIR=`pwd`; make test, but it will just work if we patch Qt and
> similar libraries ?
+1 for the request for the build system to provide for a reference point for
where the source is to be found.
SOURCE_BASE_DIR has a delightful symmetry to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and the
algorithm for use is similar: if it is in the environment then use it, if not,
fall back to the previous behaviour.
At its crudest level, a package's debian/rules could include SOURCE_BASE_DIR=
$(shell pwd); however, putting this into the build environment saves source
changes in multiple packages, sets us up for future use across the entire
ecosystem, signals to upstreams that this is a broad standard and not a mere
hack in d/rules, and also saves maintainers from thinking about nasty corner
cases to do with current directories with makefile invocation.
Looking to the future, tests using SOURCE_BASE_DIR to locate test data would
allow build-time tests to be repurposed as autopkgtest tests too, as the
autopkgtest could tell the tests where the test input data is to be found.
This would be a substantial improvement on the current situation where the
tests can only be run at build time and not on ci.debian.net.
By dpkg making SOURCE_BASE_DIR 'real', there is a distinct prospect of Debian
carrying Qt5 patches to use it (thanks Sune!) and for Qt6 to include them
upstream.
regards
Stuart
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