archive wide rebuild with "-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON"?

[Niels Thykier]

Chris Lamb:
> Hi Lucas et al.,
> 
>> yes, to do a comparative rebuild, I just need such a script that adjusts
>> the build environment to whatever is needed. See other examples in
>> https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/collab-qa-tools/-/tree/master/modes
> 
> For reference, the relevant part of debhelper's cmake.pm is:
> 
>     push(@flags, "-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON", '-DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH_USE_ORIGIN=ON') if not compat(13);
> 
> Two quick questions arising from this:
> 
> 1. Am I right in thinking we take out the "if not compat(13)"
>    conditional as part of this experiment?
> 

That is correct.

> 2. Would the best way of introducing this be a custom rebuild of the
>    src:debhelper package, similar to the way, for example, boost was
>    tested earlier this year [0]?  (I suspect this is the case if
>    customisation script is run before installation of packages,
>    otherwise we could simply sed the relevant file, similar to how we
>    tested fixfilepath [1] where we could rely on dpkg being installed.)
> 

I will leave this to Lucas to answer as it seems to be more in his
scope.  Though I can mention that Mattia was playing with a sed command
on IRC earlier to do this - you may want to coordinate internally to
avoid duplicate work/redundant efforts.

> 
>  [0] https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/collab-qa-tools/-/blob/master/modes/boost
>  [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/collab-qa-tools/-/blob/master/modes/dpkg-reproducible-fixfilepath
> 
> 
>> I have a few rebuilds to run and process, and little time for Debian
>> currently, but I'll find the time eventually.
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
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