Bug#989963: tclap: reproducible-builds: Embeds build path, binary paths and SHELL in example Makefiles

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Source: tclap
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath usrmerge shell
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

The build path, several binary paths, and the value of the SHELL
variable are embedded in example Makefiles shipped in the package:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/i386/diffoscope-results/tclap.html

  /usr/share/doc/libtclap-dev/docs/Makefile.gz

  AUTOMAKE·=·${SHELL}·'/build/1st/tclap-1.2.4/config/missing'·automake-1.16
  vs.
  AUTOMAKE·=·${SHELL}·'/build/2/tclap-1.2.4/2nd/config/missing'·automake-1.16

  GREP·=·/bin/grep
  vs.
  GREP·=·/usr/bin/grep

  SHELL·=·/bin/bash
  vs.
  SHELL·=·/bin/sh


Since these values may differ with the installed system, in order to use
the example Makefiles, a person would have to regenerate them from
Makefile.am or Makefile.in, which are also provided.

The attached patch removes the Makefiles in debian/rules.

If that is somehow not an option, an alternate option would be to
sanitize the Makefiles stripping the build path (or replacing with
/usr/src?), and possibly passing various variables to configure
(e.g. GREP=/bin/grep, SHELL=/bin/sh, ...).


Thanks for maintaining tclap!


live well,
  vagrant

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