Guitarix 0.33.0, as of Guix commit 3c3e697, builds non-deterministically: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ ./pre-inst-env guix challenge guitarix updating list of substitutes from 'http://hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% /gnu/store/6ksnwcqn92z2nf6qw5js7njnfqlifgpb-guitarix-0.33.0 contents differ: local hash: 1rh7qxmylsbsaah59h7sclqqxcz0lwsixlc0krkzwhx8gfhlyam6 http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/6ksnwcqn92z2nf6qw5js7njnfqlifgpb-guitarix-0.33.0: 1cq4k1wdqibwraqk0wkjj6n5hgs9v9zcvwr2wfgxvgxnf5l1rfhf $ wget -q -O - http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/6ksnwcqn92z2nf6qw5js7njnfqlifgpb-guitarix-0.33.0 | bunzip2 | guix archive -x t $ LC_ALL=C diff -r /gnu/store/6ksnwcqn92z2nf6qw5js7njnfqlifgpb-guitarix-0.33.0 t $ LC_ALL=C diff -r --no-dereference /gnu/store/6ksnwcqn92z2nf6qw5js7njnfqlifgpb-guitarix-0.33.0 t File /gnu/store/6ksnwcqn92z2nf6qw5js7njnfqlifgpb-guitarix-0.33.0/lib/libgxw.so is a symbolic link while file t/lib/libgxw.so is a regular file --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
It appears to create libgxw.so either as a symlink or as a regular file in a non-deterministic fashion. It would be nice to see why this happens, and whether this affects all Waf-based packages. Ludo’.
