I have stumbled over the same issue for another python package:
python-pkgconfig (just committed) makes a system call to pkg-config.
I rewrote the system call to use an absolute path, but the non-scanning
of the compressed egg means that no reference to pkg-config is returned.
Spending a week with
Leo Famulari skribis:
> Another reason to not compress Python eggs is that the contents of the
> zip archives introduce non-determinism through their timestamps.
Indeed, good catch!
Ludo’.
Another reason to not compress Python eggs is that the contents of the
zip archives introduce non-determinism through their timestamps.
You can see it in action:
$ git checkout fe17fb4a2c897fd9186f91887f5af63dd00d227a
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build --rounds=2 acme
If you save the output between roun
