bug#27593: [PATCH] gnu: groff: Make build reproducible.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Danny,

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/groff.scm (groff)[arguments]: Add phase "setenv".
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/groff.scm | 9 ++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/groff.scm b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
>> index 67dd1dbfa..6e1a60e9b 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/groff.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/groff.scm
>> @@ -56,7 +56,14 @@
>>                      ("perl" ,perl)
>>                      ("psutils" ,psutils)
>>                      ("texinfo" ,texinfo)))
>> -   (arguments '(#:parallel-build? #f))  ; parallel build fails
>> +   (arguments
>> +    `(#:parallel-build? #f   ; parallel build fails
>> +      #:phases
>> +      (modify-phases %standard-phases
>> +        (add-after 'unpack 'setenv
>> +          (lambda _
>> +            (setenv "GS_GENERATE_UUIDS" "0")
>> +            #t)))))
>
> With a comment like Marius wrote, it’d be perfect; otherwise LGTM.
>
> However, since ‘core-updates’ is now building and we’d like to make
> progress on it, could you push it to ‘core-updates-next’ or similar?

Maybe now is the time to push this to ‘core-updates’?

(I was just hit by this reproducibility issue for a PDF file made with
groff…)

Cheers,
Ludo’.