[Nix-dev] Re: Merging stdenv-updates to trunk - when?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

[...]

>  > Personally I’d rather not spend much time investigating problems on
>  > non-GNU platforms for these.  I’d consider them non-blocking for the
>  > merge.
>
> Well, I depend on Linux/x86, Linux/x86_64, and Darwin/x86, so if major packages
> like Git, Emacs, or Python are broken on these platforms, then this is going to
> affect me quite a bit.

Understood.

Now, as I said in another message, I can’t technically do much serious
for Darwin, and I also don’t want to spend too much time and disk space
on the i686 Linux issues.

IOW, your help is needed.  :-)

>  >>  | the following derivations will be built:
>  >>  |   /nix/store/dw484n3gcfv1z6nvh93i8dga3afkfajf-texinfo-4.13a.drv
>  >>  | building path(s) `/nix/store/pl0bs3i68bdaymg99dficwakhjrc5xqh-texinfo-4.13a'
>  >>  | building /nix/store/pl0bs3i68bdaymg99dficwakhjrc5xqh-texinfo-4.13a
>  >>  | unpacking sources
>  >>  | unpacking source archive /nix/store/9fh76lcx21pf35flmzfh35sya9a4g069-texinfo-4.13a.tar.lzma
>  >>  | tar: Child died with signal 11
>  >>  | tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>  >>  | builder for `/nix/store/dw484n3gcfv1z6nvh93i8dga3afkfajf-texinfo-4.13a.drv' failed with exit code 2
>  >>  | error: build of `/nix/store/dw484n3gcfv1z6nvh93i8dga3afkfajf-texinfo-4.13a.drv' failed
>  >
>  > That xz segfaulted. I believe this may have been caused by a glibc bug,
>  > which Lluís solved last week or so.
>
> If the problem has been solved, then why doesn't that build succeed?

I don’t know.  It could also be another issue...

Thanks,
Ludo’.