Bug#1030785: Reproducibility of ocaml...

[Stéphane Glondu]

Hi Chris,

Le 07/02/2023 à 17:13, Chris Lamb a écrit :
> I appreciate this info is difficult to find (!), but for a bunch of
> historical reasons, there are actually a different set of variations
> tested when we test sid compared to when we test bookworm. In other
> words, the differences between the two builds is not just the package
> version and Debian distribution.
> 
> We try to canonically document the differences on this page:
> 
>    https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_variations.html
> 
> And almost certainly the difference is down to the build path. :)

Indeed.

> Does
> that help? We've had a series of build path variations in the OCaml
> stack, so maybe some patch got reverted, or…?

In this specific case, the variation comes from -ffile-prefix-map being 
injected automatically into CFLAGS.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane