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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/video.scm b/gnu/packages/video.scm
index 0e80dd459c..a227c8b39f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/video.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/video.scm
@@ -619,7 +619,30 @@ audio/video codec library.")
`("--disable-a52" ; FIXME: reenable once available
,(string-append "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath -Wl,"
(assoc-ref %build-inputs "ffmpeg")
- "/lib")))) ; needed for the tests
+ "/lib")) ;needed for the tests
+
+ #:phases
+ (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (add-after 'install 'regenerate-plugin-cache
+ (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ ;; The 'install-exec-hook' rule in the top-level Makefile.am
+ ;; generates 'lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat', a plugin cache, using
+ ;; 'vlc-cache-gen'. This file includes the mtime of the plugins
+ ;; it references. Thus, we first reset the timestamps of all
+ ;; these files, and then regenerate the cache such that the
+ ;; mtimes it includes are always zero instead of being dependent
+ ;; on the build time.
+ (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
+ (pkglibdir (string-append out "/lib/vlc"))
+ (plugindir (string-append pkglibdir "/plugins"))
+ (cachegen (string-append pkglibdir "/vlc-cache-gen")))
+ ;; TODO: Factorize 'reset-timestamps'.
+ (for-each (lambda (file)
+ (let ((s (lstat file)))
+ (unless (eq? (stat:type s) 'symlink)
+ (utime file 0 0 0 0))))
+ (find-files plugindir))
+ (zero? (system* cachegen plugindir))))))))
(home-page "https://www.videolan.org/")
(synopsis "Audio and video framework")
(description "VLC is a cross-platform multimedia player and framework