Debian Bug report logs - #991002
automake1.11: reproducible builds: Embeds different shell depending on /bin/sh symlink

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From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: automake1.11: reproducible builds: Embeds different shell depending on /bin/sh symlink

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:21:09 -0700

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Source: automake1.11
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: shell
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Depending on which shell /bin/sh symlinks to, a different value is
embedded in automake-1.11:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bullseye/amd64/diffoscope-results/automake1.11.html

  /usr/bin/automake-1.11

  $ENV{'SHELL'}·=·'/bin/bash'·if·exists·$ENV{'DJDIR'};
  vs.
  $ENV{'SHELL'}·=·'/bin/sh'·if·exists·$ENV{'DJDIR'};


The attached patch fixes this in debian/rules by passing
CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash to configure.

With this patch applied (and another submitted patch for timestamps),
automake1.11 should become reproducible on the
tests.reproducible-builds.org infrastructure.


Thanks for maintaining automake1.11!


live well,
  vagrant

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From fb24e9747fdafd4f4f1286ac581add202f1bdbf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:01:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] debian/rules: Run configure with CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash.

Depending on weather /bin/sh symlinks to /bin/bash or /bin/dash,
/usr/bin/automake-1.11 embeds a different value for SHELL.
---
 debian/rules | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 1de340e..0823bd4 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ infodir=doc
 # Explicitly call configure since old configure doesn't understand
 # --runstatedir.
 override_dh_auto_configure:
-	./configure --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
+	CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash ./configure --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
 		--prefix=/usr --includedir=\$${prefix}/include \
 		--mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man \
 		--infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info \
-- 
2.32.0

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