Re: GNU SASL test failures

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Simon!
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It fails everywhere else too (that host went away a long time ago) --
>> but maybe the build environment fails DNS lookups in some different way?
>
> All DNS lookups fail, basically because there’s no resolv.conf in the
> build chroot.  It’s also a design choice: Nix strives to maximize
> reproducibility, which implies that build systems are expected to be
> self-contained and deterministic.
>
> Note that ‘localhost’ won’t resolve either, so you’d have to use
> 127.0.0.1.

Ok -- there shouldn't be any socket stuff going on there, the self-test
should be all in memory, so I'm not sure what is happening.  I'll debug
it further when I find some time...

/Simon