Re: Reproducible builds: genbki.pl vs schemapg.h

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Christoph Berg <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reproducible builds: genbki.pl vs schemapg.h
Date: 2017-12-15 22:52:41
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQsxACj9KyrJjn48HebtK1MAAiQ30TRd47Xfgt4rhQYuQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Christoph Berg
<christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de> wrote:
> Re: Tom Lane 2017-12-15 <9616(dot)1513351766(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
>> Christoph Berg <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de> writes:
>> > Debian's reproducible builds project has revealed that the full build
>> > path gets embedded into server/catalog/schemapg.h:
>>
>> genbki.pl is hardly our only script that prints its $0 ...
>
> As per
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/postgresql-10.html,
> that's the only place that makes it into the resulting binary.
> I wouldn't be sending a patch if it didn't fix the issue.

Why not fixing that? Reproducible builds are a trend of these days,
and what's proposed here is really simple to make PG more compliant
with this purpose in mind.
--
Michael

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