Re: Building Guile with ‘-j1’?

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> As the saying goes, “the cobbler’s children go barefoot”.  Guile/Guix
> are no exception since Guile builds are non-reproducible, despite work
> done a few years ago:
>
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/20272
>
> Until it’s fixed in Guile proper, what do you think of building Guile
> 2.0/2.2/3.0 with #:parallel-build? #f ?  We could do that in
> ‘core-updates’ now.

Sounds good to me.  Given the nature of Guile's module system, it's
still not clear to me how to ensure reproducible builds of Guile modules
unless the order of compilation is deterministic.  I haven't thought
about it in a few years, though.

       Mark