Current, the deterministic bots do a clobber build, then move the build dir elsewhere, and then build again in the original dir.
It would be better if they did builds in two separate build dirs (whose names have different length), then they'd also check that the output is build-dir-name-independent.
Also, then one of the two build dirs wouldn't have to be a clobber dir, which probably helps with cycle time (and it'd check that incremental builds are also deterministic).
Comment 1 by thakis@google.com
, Oct 27