bug#25414: address@hidden does not build deterministically

[Danny Milosavljevic]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:06:42 +0100
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Presumably ‘gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders’, which generates ‘loaders.cache’,
> does not sort the entries returned by readdir(2).

Yep.

gdk-pixbuf/queryloaders.c line 355 uses g_dir_open.

Docs: 
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-File-Utilities.html#g-dir-open 
"Note that the ordering is not defined."

One could use g_list_append to append it to a list and then g_list_sort and 
then g_list_free. Like below (untested! Seriously!):

--- gdk-pixbuf/queryloaders.c.orig      2017-01-11 00:17:32.865843062 +0100
+++ gdk-pixbuf/queryloaders.c   2017-01-11 00:31:29.428372177 +0100
@@ -354,16 +354,25 @@
 
                 dir = g_dir_open (path, 0, NULL);
                 if (dir) {
+                        GList *entries = NULL;
                         const char *dent;
 
                         while ((dent = g_dir_read_name (dir))) {
                                 gint len = strlen (dent);
                                 if (len > SOEXT_LEN &&
                                     strcmp (dent + len - SOEXT_LEN, SOEXT) == 
0) {
-                                        query_module (contents, path, dent);
+                                        entries = g_list_append (entries, 
g_strdup (dent));
                                 }
                         }
                         g_dir_close (dir);
+                        entries = g_list_sort (entries, strcmp);
+                        GList *xentries;
+                        for (xentries = entries; xentries; xentries = 
g_list_next(xentries)) {
+                                dent = xentries->data;
+                                query_module (contents, path, dent);
+                                g_free (xentries->data);
+                        }
+                        g_list_free(entries);
                 }
 #else
                 g_string_append_printf (contents, "# dynamic loading of 
modules not supported\n");