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

Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>

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From: Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-12-15T18:13:38Z
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Re: Tom Lane 2017-12-15 <9616.1513351766@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.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.

Christoph
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