Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

On 27/02/2020 20:16, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Pádraig Brady writes:
>
> Hello Pádraig,
>
> > We plan to release coreutils-8.32 in the coming week
> > so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> > would be most welcome.
>
> It builds fine, and reproducibly on Guix System (current master;
> ba8992d28b1616d05b7cb04ef032944c5d19cd5a); build log attached.
>
> Guix has been disabling tests/misc/env-S.pl
>
>      ;; This test hits the 127 character shebang limit in the build
>      ;; environment due to the way "env -S" splits arguments into
>      ;; shebangs.  Note that "env-S-script.sh" works around this
>      ;; specific issue, but "env-S.pl" is not adjusted for build
>      ;; environments with long prefixes (/tmp/guix-build-...).
>      (substitute* "Makefile"
>        (("^.*tests/misc/env-S.pl.*$") ""))

I don't immediately see the issue with env-S.pl TBH

> so I guess this is expected, and that hasn't changed.
>
> Would you be willing to also provide a GZIP compressed version of future
> sed releases too? (patch attached).
>
> Since coreutils-8.14 (2011), only XZ tarball releases were provided.
> This is not a problem but still unfortunate; it makes 8.13 (2011)
> currently the latest version that we can use to build first in our
> ongoing efforts to create a full source bootstrap of the GNU (Guix)
> System. Only a few GNU packages have this new bootstrap "problem";
> I am happy that GNU Sed re-started issuing gzip releases recently
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00016.html).
>
> For some background see this blog post
> https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/, the
> next reduction will remove programs like sed from the bootstrap seed.
> XZ can only be built after we have a fairly recent GCC and glibc.

Interesting. Would xz require much tweaking to target older systems?

Given coreutils is quite fundamental, let's provide a gzipped tarball for now.
Pushed that change at:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.31-91-g516cdf38a

thanks for testing!
Pádraig