Thomas Dickey: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:38:26AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Source: ncurses >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: patch >> >> Hi, >> >> While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed >> that ncurses could not be built reproducibly. >> >> We have found that MKterminfo.sh included a trailing space in one >> build test but not in the other. It is not quite clear to me what >> triggers this behaviour, but there is a note claiming it to be the >> locale difference (one build is in C and the other in a French UTF-8 >> locale). > > If it is a locale issue, then ensuring that the script uses > POSIX locale will fix that. The script does that already. > > Perhaps the bug is not in ncurses, but in one of the tools used -- > some clarification would be helpful. >
Hi, After digging a bit, it turns out that the difference is due to "dash vs bash". In one run /bin/sh is dash and the other it is bash (I think $SHELL changes accordingly). However, I am not any wiser on why dash and bash disagrees on this. Bash strips the whitespace and dash keeps it. Thanks, ~Niels [1] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/reproducible.html
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