Re: Test failure when building libarchive-3.1.2

[Jan Synáček]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Jan Synáček <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Jan Synáček <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Reference files will be read from:
>>> /tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/tar/test
>>> Running tests on:
>>> "/tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/./bsdtar"
>>> Exercising: bsdtar 3.1.2 - libarchive 3.1.2
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>  17: test_option_b                                     FAIL
>>
>> Ricardo reported the same issue a while back:
>>
>>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-03/msg00182.html
>>
>> What platform is this on, i686?
>>
>> It would be nice to see if this systematically fails.  If it is
>> non-deterministic, we should build it with --keep-failed until it fails
>> (removing successful builds with ‘guix gc -d’), collect useful info from
>> the build tree, and debug.
>>
>> (You can also work around it by enabling substitutes since Hydra had no
>> problems building it.)
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> I debugged this and the upstream patch
> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/b539b2e597b566fe3c4b49cb61c9eef83e5e052d
> fixes the problem. You will probably want to add it to the build process.

I just realized I need to do this locally as well to fix the
compilation...:) How do I modify the build process and add the patch
to the store?

Cheers,
-- 
Jan Synáček