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

[David Goulet]

On 28 Mar (18:52:37), Ian Goldberg wrote:
> OK, there was a weird issue with reproducible builds of the tarball for
> libotr.
> 
> It turns out (at least with the current Ubuntu 14.04 version of
> automake) that the first time you run autoreconf, which itself runs
> automake, automake does not find config/depcomp (since it does not yet
> exist), and so does not list config/depcomp in the resulting
> Makefile.in.  (Which is weird, because it lists other files in config/
> that it just created, but not depcomp.)  Running autoreconf *again*
> causes config/depcomp to become correctly listed in Makefile.in.
> 
> So I committed a change to the ./bootstrap program to run autoreconf,
> then grep -q config/depcomp Makefile.in, then run it again if the grep
> failed.
> 
> Now "make dist" will produce identical output, whether you run it from a
> fresh clone or a directory you've used before.  And if you untar the
> "make dist" output tarball, and "./configure; make dist", or even
> "./bootstrap; ./configure; make dist", you get the byte-for-byte
> identical tarball to the one you started with.
> 
> At least I do.
> 
> With the current commit (libotr devel branch commit 0774db331766), I
> get (on Ubuntu 14.04):
> 
> f54fc56b979f10a5ea7861975bec13110951d0508d7625dfb40b326bb1142b68  libotr-4.1.1.tar.gz

Woot! :)

f54fc56b979f10a5ea7861975bec13110951d0508d7625dfb40b326bb1142b68 libotr-4.1.1.tar.gz

Good job! Thanks!
David

> 
>    - Ian
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