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#824049
emacs24: please make start value of gensym-counter reproducible
Reported by: Alexis Bienvenüe <pado@passoire.fr>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 17:03:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch, upstream
Found in version emacs24/24.5+1-6
Fixed in version 24.5+1-11+rm
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Bug#824049; Package src:emacs24.
(Wed, 11 May 2016 17:03:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
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Source: emacs24
Version: 24.5+1-6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: toolchain
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Dear Maintainer,
When bytecompiling elisp files, cl-gensym-counter is initialized from
the current time, leading to unreproducible results. This can affect
reproducibility [1] of some software packages that build-depend on emacs
(and of emacs24 itself). I suggest to set the initial value of
cl-gensym-counter from the names of the files to be compiled (see
proposed patch).
Test-case:
cd /tmp
wget
https://sources.debian.net/data/main/e/emacs24/24.5+1-5/lisp/org/ob-C.el
emacs -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -f batch-byte-compile ob-C.el
cp ob-C.elc ob-C.elc.0
sleep 1
emacs -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -f batch-byte-compile ob-C.el
diff ob-C.elc ob-C.elc.0
The two files should be the same, but they differ (with different #:Gnnn
values)
Regards,
Alexis Bienvenüe.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/
[0021-reproducible-gensym-counter.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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Version: 24.5+1-11+rm
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as the package emacs24 has just been removed from the Debian archive
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