bug#22558: gnupg-2.1.11 on x86_64 failed its tests many times on Hydra

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:02:32PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:13:55 -0500
> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> > >> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> > >> 
> > >> > Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:
> > >> >
> > >> >>> > * With 14 test failures.  This happened at least twice, on
> > >> >>> >   hydra.gnunet.org.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Eric Bavier reported on #guix that it failed to build on his machine
> > >> >>> twice in a row, with 14 test failures.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I used 'git bisect' on the gnupg repository to narrow the failures
> > >> >> down. Commit ee87c653bf is the commit that introduces the failures.
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks for digging!  Could you report it upstream?
> > >> 
> > >> I reported it upstream, and now they have a fix in their repo.
> > >> I've attached a patch to Guix which adds this upstream patch.
> > >> 
> > >> Eric, would you be willing to test it and see if it fixes the problem
> > >> for you?
> > >
> > > I'm not Eric, but with this patch, I can successfully build on the
> > > machine that was previously exhibiting the failures.
> > 
> > Thanks!  I went ahead and pushed this to master, commit 3a7261bf96.
> > I'm closing this bug now.
> 
> I realize I'm a bit late, but I just wanted to let you know that this
> appears to fix the gnupg-2.1.11 build for me too:
> 
> @ build-succeeded 
> /gnu/store/qyjrqxnrka55p5g5vh1p80ac1rxn5nfm-gnupg-2.1.11.drv -
> /gnu/store/w6fbikpwzpjkwvy6z1hwbszq0x83yspv-gnupg-2.1.11
> 
> But I had to add "#:use-module (gnu packages)" to the
> gnu/packages/gnupg.scm before it would build, otherwise "could not
> find symbol search-path".

Weird, that did not happen to me when building from 3a7261bf96b2 on
x86_64 with a recent guix-daemon.