Re: Reproducible builds: genbki.pl and Gen_fmgrtab.pl

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christoph Berg <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reproducible builds: genbki.pl and Gen_fmgrtab.pl
Date: 2017-12-24 17:30:59
Message-ID: 20171224173059.GL10102@fetter.org
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On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/20/17 21:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> > -my $this_script = $0;
> > +my $this_script = 'src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/UCS_to_BIG5.pl';
>
> This kind of things looks awful. Why is this better?

What's wrong with using the path? As you point out elsewhere on this
thread, it's a way to identify the program uniquely and reproducibly.

Best,
David.
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