gnu: petsc: Build reproducibly.

* gnu/packages/maths.scm (petsc)[arguments]: In ‘configure’ phase, add
‘sorted’ call in ‘gmakegen.py’.
In ‘clean-local-references’, remove substitution of “Libraries compiled
on”, which is unnecessary since  PETSc 3.9
(<a970bd7489>).
Add substitution for “Machine characteristics” bit.

Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Change-Id: Ibb846c1ae368af94b46d5ce789b1263e0bc78a13

gnu/packages/maths.scm

@@ -3545,6 +3545,11 @@ (define-public petsc
               (let* ((prefix (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
                      (flags `(,(string-append "--prefix=" prefix)
                               ,@configure-flags)))
+                ;; Sort source files in configure (for reproducibility).
+                (substitute* "config/gmakegen.py"
+                  (("join\\(srcs\\[lang\\]\\)")
+                   "join(sorted(srcs[lang]))"))
+
                 (format #t "build directory: ~s~%" (getcwd))
                 (format #t "configure flags: ~s~%" flags)
                 (apply invoke "./configure" flags)
@@ -3559,8 +3564,8 @@ (define-public petsc
                 (substitute* (find-files "." "^petsc(conf|machineinfo).h$")
                   ;; Prevent build directory from leaking into compiled code
                   (((getcwd)) out)
-                  ;; Scrub timestamp for reproducibility
-                  ((".*Libraries compiled on.*") ""))
+                  (("Machine characteristics: Linux-[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+")
+                    "Machine characteristics: Linux-x.x.x"))
                 (substitute* (find-files "." "petscvariables")
                   ;; Do not expose build machine characteristics, set to defaults.
                   (("MAKE_NP = [:digit:]+") "MAKE_NP = 2")