Re: Making compilation results deterministic (#4012)

On 17/09/2015 17:30, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

| We don't currently have a good way to reproduce the problem from a | completely clean build, however it's easy to reproduce by doing two | builds and leaving the .hi files from the first build in place while | removing the .o files

Indeed. But is determinism in the face of .hi file changes Part of the Goal?

Hopefully the wiki should clarify this. I've just edited it a bit to expand on the motivation and a few other details. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DeterministicBuilds Cheers Simon