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universal-ctags: 2018-07-23 -> 2019-07-24 #65594

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@marsam marsam commented Jul 30, 2019

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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  • reviewed the diff and commit messages
  • made sure ofBorg build succeeded for all applicable platforms
  • run nix-review without any failures
  • run and tested the binaries

@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {

configureFlags = [ "--enable-tmpdir=/tmp" ];

postPatch = ''
substituteInPlace main/options.c \
--replace "printf (\" Compiled: %s, %s\n\", __DATE__, __TIME__);" ""
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What does this accomplish?

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It's to remove non-determinism, because those macros embed the compilation time in the binary. I added a comment

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Yuck 😄 We could advise upstream to not do that.

@worldofpeace worldofpeace merged commit c0a8580 into NixOS:master Jul 31, 2019
@marsam marsam deleted the update-universal-ctags branch July 31, 2019 13:02
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