Re: hydra builds broken since commit 355f924c (gettext-0.18.1 required)

[Rob Vermaas]

Hi,

>>>>> hmm, since commit 4a1527908b992f721fc99991b0e89d8d355f924c
>>>>>   "bootstrap: use latest gnulib bootstrap, gettext",
>>>>> the automated hydra builds fail due to gettext dependency:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master
>>>>> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1248348
>>>>>
>>>>> autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your
>>>>> configure.ac
>>>>>                file requires the infrastructure from gettext-0.18.1 but
>>>>> this version
>>>>>                is older. Please upgrade to gettext-0.18.1 or newer.
>>>>> autopoint: *** Stop.
>>>>>
>>>>> According to README-release, the NixOS/Hydra autobuilder should report
>>>>> all is well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this something to worry too much about?
>>>>
>>>> No.  It'd be nice to adjust the autobuilder, but I hesitated
>>>> to make the request.  But now that you bring it up, ...
>>>> I've Cc'd Rob, in case he has time to make the autobuilder
>>>> use gettext-0.18.1.
>>>>
>>>> If not, we'll consider making coreutils require only
>>>> gettext-0.18 instead.
>>
>> I updated the build expression to use gettext 0.18.1. At the moment,
>> the freebsd machine is down, so the build fails on that one. Will only
>> be able to access the machine tomorrow to reboot it.
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> On x86_64-linux, the new build doesn't look healthy:
> (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1302194)
>
> checking whether fstatat fills in st_size etc.... configure: error: in
> `/tmp/nix-build-0hb4z8f3gaa69i5j6r6r20dxgwki00hl-coreutils-8.12.192-0cefe-dirty-i586-pc-gnu.drv-0/coreutils-8.12.192-0cefe-dirty':
> configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
> See `config.log' for more details
>
> Is this a temporary failure?

This is a hurd cross-compilation build. I'm not very familiar with
this. Maybe Ludo (cc) knows?

gr,
Rob

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Rob Vermaas

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