On 2016-03-13 11:21 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > 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.
That would be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794965, it seems. I'd rather see it fixed than paper over it in ncurses. Cheers, Sven
