Test suite failure: Your dummy space has been corrupted. Size is: ""

[peti]

A complete build log is at http://hydra.cryp.to/build/626545/log/raw.

[mgsloan]

Thanks for the report! This is a mystery to me - I can't reproduce the problem locally. I'm using an identical set of dependencies.

Here's where the dummy string is generated: https://github.com/fpco/executable-hash/blob/master/System/Executable/Hash/Internal.hs#L20

And here's where the exception is coming from: https://github.com/snoyberg/file-embed/blob/master/Data/FileEmbed.hs#L238

Is feexecutable-hash a substring of the binary? While I'm not sure if it would be helpful, maybe you could upload the dist/test-inject/test-inject binary?

Perhaps it's something nix related? I know that nix tries very hard to make builds deterministic, but I can't see that breaking this..

[peti]

The binaries are available in https://gist.github.com/peti/ae4fdd4e75171cd449a1. I hope this helps.

[mgsloan]

Ah, that is helpful, thanks! Your binaries are tiny compared to mine, likely because they are dynamically linked. Since the dummy string is in the library, it isn't found within the executable's binary.

The API should probably be changed to make this a nonissue. This would involve the following changes:

• Make executableHash and injectedExecutableHash into TH functions, which yield Q Exp.
• Have file-embed replace multiple instances of the dummy string. This way multiple usages of executable-hash will still work. This is one of the reasons I didn't do this in the first place.

The alternative would be to demand statically linked binaries, but since that's avoidable, this seems like a good thing to change.

[mgsloan]

I think I prefer this anyway, because it'll make it clearer that the executableHash function is doing something magical.

[mgsloan]

@peti I've uploaded executable-hash-0.2.0.0 to hackage. Can you please verify that this resolves the issue?

[peti]

I'm a little late with my response. I'm sorry about that. New versions of the package work fine in NIxOS: http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/haskell-updates/haskellngPackages.executable-hash.x86_64-linux.

[mgsloan]

No worries, thanks for verifying!