Re: Cross-compiling bootstrap tarballs fails on core-updates

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Marius,

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

> There seems to be a couple of different problems here.
>
> 'patch' fails to build due to a conflicting declaration of
> '__mktime_internal':
>
>   CCLD     patch
> /gnu/store/9v09kidvqykyk2kh26q297di3lkjc8vy-glibc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-2.27-static/lib/libc.a(mktime.o):
>  In function `__mktime_internal':
> /tmp/guix-build-glibc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-2.27.drv-0/glibc-2.27/time/mktime.c:353:
>  multiple definition of `__mktime_internal'
> ../lib/libpatch.a(mktime.o):/tmp/guix-build-patch-2.7.6.drv-0/patch-2.7.6/lib/mktime.c:317:
>  first defined here
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1230: patch] Error 1
>
>
> Note that there is a warning about __mktime_internal earlier:
>
> In file included from timegm.c:20:0:                                          
>                      
> timegm.c: In function 'rpl_timegm':                                           
>                      
> ../config.h:1974:25: warning: implicit declaration of function 
> '__mktime_internal' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>  #define mktime_internal __mktime_internal
>
> timegm.c:30:28: note: in expansion of macro 'mktime_internal'
>  # define __mktime_internal mktime_internal
>
> timegm.c:39:10: note: in expansion of macro '__mktime_internal'
>    return __mktime_internal (tmp, __gmtime_r, &gmtime_offset);
>
>
> Then we have 'ncurses' failing in the install phase with:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory 
> '/tmp/guix-build-ncurses-6.1.drv-0/ncurses-6.1/progs'
> mkdir -p /gnu/store/553j76738bh6bcr31vsyri0wpxir2wkw-ncurses-6.1/bin
> /gnu/store/63gkgnixg6xj3m9cgl25ib2zxl51ngw0-coreutils-8.29/bin/install -c -s 
> tic     /gnu/store/553j76738bh6bcr31vsyri0wpxir2wkw-ncurses-6.1/bin/`echo 
> tic|       sed 's/$//'|sed 's,x,x,'|sed 's/$//'`
> strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file 
> `/gnu/store/553j76738bh6bcr31vsyri0wpxir2wkw-ncurses-6.1/bin/tic'
> /gnu/store/63gkgnixg6xj3m9cgl25ib2zxl51ngw0-coreutils-8.29/bin/install: strip 
> process terminated abnormally
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:201: install.progs] Error 1

This is fixed by these commits:

  c77835db0 * gnu: tar: Work around a cross-compilation issue.
  b0ff3606b * gnu: ncurses: Do not use "install -s" when cross-compiling.
  d3878d3d5 * gnu: patch: Work around a cross-compilation issue.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Ludo’.