Debian Bug report logs - #1036221
mfem: please make the build reproducible

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From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: mfem: please make the build reproducible

Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 09:08:21 -0700

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Source: mfem
Version: 4.5.2+ds-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

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

This was because it embedded the absolute build path in various .cmake
and C++ header/configuration files. As the paths these files reference
do not need to exist at runtime, it is safe to replace them with a
static alternative, which is what the attached patch does.

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


Regards,

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