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Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 23:36:30 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 07:36:26AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> This appears to happen because the index sort is not stable with respect
> to the line number, resulting in output non-determinstically changing
> from:                                                                         
>   
> The attached patch adds the line number to the sort comparator. Once
> applied, (some) packages using texinfo can be built reproducibly in
> our reproducible toolchain.

I committed a fix.

I used the @-command name to disambiguate, as it should always be
different otherwise the entries are in the same index and number is
enough to have a reproducible sorting.

-- 
Pat



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