Bug#1002496: perl6-readline: Strange files under /usr/lib/perl6/vendor/dist?

[Chris Lamb]

Hey Dominique,

> I don't really know why the pre-compilation is not reproducible.

First, thank you for the links and explanation: I thought they were
I accidentally-included files at first. Anyway, I've just spent a few
minutes looking into this issue and it seems like the pre-compiled
modules reference the absolute build path:

  $ strings EBC1B2DDA59A9D91D483BD81DAA416714D2D1276 | grep lamby
  /home/lamby/temp/cdt.20220105114153.LbQvXzNPwU.repro.perl6-readline/build-a/perl6-readline-0.1.5

(There might be other 'nondeterminisms' as well, however.)

> As a matter of fact, neither rakudo, nqp or moarvm are reproducible. I've
> never found the time or energy to find why.

I assume you're referring to the build of the rakudo source package
itself. If so, that feels like an important yet distinct issue: let's
keep this particular bug to the reproducibility of the *output* of
rakudo… even if it turns out to be the same underlying problem.

Anyway, just thought I'd brain-dump the above for now.


Best wishes,

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