Re: [PATCH] Support building development version without git
Dima Kogan <[email protected]>
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Henri Menke <[email protected]> writes: > The original motivation for this change was that I wanted to build the > development version on NixOS. In the Nix packaging system you can build > stuff directly from a git checkout, but because the system emphasizes > reproducible builds, the build cannot depend on the contents of the .git > directory because these are actually non-deterministic (due to git gc), > so two checkouts of the same commit may actually have a different .git > directory. This will lead to spurious build failures because the output > hashes differ. > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/8567 > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20521 > > I thought it would be a good idea to upstream the support for this but > if this is too much of a pain here, I can also patch it locally. Thanks for explaining. What would you do if this project was hosted somewhere that doesn't make these snapshots available? Like github for instance? _______________________________________________ gnuplot-beta mailing list [email protected] Membership management via: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-beta