[libvirt] genprotocol.pl generates unstable output

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 09:59:24AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:44:55AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > >If the same source gets built twice the resulting files may differ.
> 
> > I don't see the problem, these pointers are not depending on each
> > other.  Or are you saying that it leaves your tree dirty?  Because
> > that has not happened to me and I believe others did not have a
> > problem with it either, otherwise this would happen a LOT of times.
> 
> 'built twice' means 'build same source on different hosts at different
> times'. I want to get reproducible build results for binary packages.

That makes total sense. It should be mostly just a case of adding calls
to the perl sort function in various places in the code generator.

Regards,
Daniel
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