Bug#1025415: cctools: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: cctools
Version: 9.9-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
cctools could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the various Python components are built with a
"./configure --prefix" value that is based on build user's home
directory which then gets embedded into various files. Although the
current debian/rules file does specify a value for --prefix in its
override_dh_auto_configure, this is overridden later in
override_dh_auto_install when the Python components are built.

A patch is attached that also the prefix to same value (ie. /usr).

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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--- a/debian/rules	2022-12-04 09:49:50.271004976 +0000
--- b/debian/rules	2022-12-04 10:24:29.485205110 +0000
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 	if [ -n "$(non_default_python3_versions)" ]; then \
 		for pyver in $(non_default_python3_versions); do \
 			CFLAGS="$(CF) -I /usr/include/python$${pyver} -DNDEBUG -Wno-unused-result" \
-			bash ./configure --with-globus-path /usr --with-krb5-path /usr --with-readline-path /usr \
+			bash ./configure --prefix /usr --with-globus-path /usr --with-krb5-path /usr --with-readline-path /usr \
 				--with-mpi-path /usr --with-fuse-path /usr --with-zlib-path /usr \
 				--with-python3-path /usr/bin/python$${pyver} --with-python2-path no ; \
 			make -B -C work_queue/src/bindings/python3 clean install CCTOOLS_INSTALL_DIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp ; \