[OTR-dev] Reproducible builds of pidgin-otr for Windows

[Jurre van Bergen]

On 03/20/2016 11:26 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:21:39PM +0100, Jurre van Bergen wrote:
>>> OK, built.  The above tarball, whose hash is itself:
>>>
>>> 22c6a6c250ca277e36ffed1ff1bd6d366209664471c80c3c507f8811ba5c28da  pidgin-otr-4.0.2-repro.tar.gz
>>>
>>> generates these files for me:
>>>
>>> 19f315c8317105a89d5b6fde6c2caa63ffa2e150df5fb0d67ee20ac985b0b191  pidgin-otr-4.0.2.exe
>>> 7e9dc2175591d7aabc9f96e737817fa917f3e4441b62727bb9730e516c47822e  pidgin-otr-4.0.2.zip
>>>
>>> How about yoU?
>>>
>>>    - Ian
>>>
>> Woohoo!
>>
>> root at 5036add14019:~/pidgin-otr-4.0.2# sha256sum pidgin-otr-4.0.2.*
>>
>> 19f315c8317105a89d5b6fde6c2caa63ffa2e150df5fb0d67ee20ac985b0b191 
>> pidgin-otr-4.0.2.exe
>> 7e9dc2175591d7aabc9f96e737817fa917f3e4441b62727bb9730e516c47822e 
>> pidgin-otr-4.0.2.zip
>>
>> Seems we got a full matching build!
> Yay!!!  Would anyone else like to try, perhaps on Debian or something?

Seems to go wrong here: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/16c109b6/

>
>> I did the following change:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install mingw32 nsis faketime bison zip unzip tar \
>>         wget diffutils findutils build-essential automake patch \
>>         perl-base coreutils libtool -y
>>
>> sudo apt-get install gettext -y
>>
>> First we install bison so we're sure it can configure gettext and be safe.
> Do you think that's needed?  bison is a compile-time configuration for
> gettext, not run-time.  We need bison to build the Windows version of
> gettext, not to use the Linux version, I think?
Doesn't seem necessary indeed! I got a matching build without my
modifications. Myth busted!

>
> But the "-y", sure.  :-)
:-)

Best,
Jurre