gnu: perl: Build deterministically, and make byproducts deterministic.

With this, a --rounds=2 build passes, and timestamps in POD files can be
controlled with 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH'.

* gnu/packages/patches/perl-deterministic-ordering.patch,
gnu/packages/patches/perl-no-build-time.patch,
gnu/packages/patches/perl-source-date-epoch.patch: New files.
* gnu/packages/perl.scm (perl)[source]: Use them.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add them.

3 files changed, 74 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/perl-deterministic-ordering.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/perl-deterministic-ordering.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92e33ef135
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/perl-deterministic-ordering.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From <https://bugs.debian.org/801523>.
+
+From c01f602d1926b0671fd2c8d91f7e52c4e4c9fb24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
+Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:27:56 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Sort the list of XS code files when generating RealPPPort.xs
+
+all_files_in_dir() uses readdir() ordering to make the list of
+input files. This can vary between build systems, breaking build
+reproducibility.
+---
+ cpan/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_xs.PL | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/cpan/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_xs.PL b/cpan/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_xs.PL
+index 5f18940..149f2fe 100644
+--- a/cpan/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_xs.PL
++++ b/cpan/Devel-PPPort/PPPort_xs.PL
+@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ END
+ my $file;
+ my $sec;
+ 
+-for $file (all_files_in_dir('parts/inc')) {
++for $file (sort(all_files_in_dir('parts/inc'))) {
+   my $spec = parse_partspec($file);
+ 
+   my $msg = 0;
+-- 
+2.5.1
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/perl-no-build-time.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/perl-no-build-time.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5d78e8f462
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/perl-no-build-time.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Do not record the configuration and build time so that builds can be
+reproduced bit-for-bit.
+
+--- perl-5.22.0/Configure	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
++++ perl-5.22.0/Configure	2015-12-13 00:14:43.148165080 +0100
+@@ -3834,6 +3817,7 @@ esac
+ 
+ : who configured the system
+ cf_time=`LC_ALL=C; LANGUAGE=C; export LC_ALL; export LANGUAGE; $date 2>&1`
++cf_time='Thu Jan  1 00:00:01 UTC 1970'
+ case "$cf_by" in
+ "")
+ 	cf_by=`(logname) 2>/dev/null`
+
+--- perl-5.22.0/perl.c	2015-12-13 00:25:30.269156627 +0100
++++ perl-5.22.0/perl.c	2015-12-13 00:25:38.265218175 +0100
+@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ S_Internals_V(pTHX_ CV *cv)
+     PUSHs(Perl_newSVpvn_flags(aTHX_ non_bincompat_options,
+ 			      sizeof(non_bincompat_options) - 1, SVs_TEMP));
+ 
+-#ifdef __DATE__
++#if 0
+ #  ifdef __TIME__
+     PUSHs(Perl_newSVpvn_flags(aTHX_
+ 			      STR_WITH_LEN("Compiled at " __DATE__ " " __TIME__),
+
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/perl-source-date-epoch.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/perl-source-date-epoch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..37330c9537
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/perl-source-date-epoch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Adapted from <https://bugs.debian.org/801621>.
+Make Pod::Man honor the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
+
+--- perl-5.22.0/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm	2015-12-12 22:33:03.321787590 +0100
++++ perl-5.22.0/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm	2015-12-12 22:36:33.367361338 +0100
+@@ -884,7 +884,12 @@ sub devise_date {
+     my ($self) = @_;
+     my $input = $self->source_filename;
+     my $time;
+-    if ($input) {
++
++    if (defined($ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}) &&
++        $ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH} !~ /\D/) {
++        $time = $ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH};
++    }
++    elsif ($input) {
+         $time = (stat $input)[9] || time;
+     } else {
+         $time = time;