[Reproduce-devel] [bug #56294] Binutils should be built alone

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?56294>

                 Summary: Binutils should be built alone
                 Project: Reproducible paper template
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Thu 09 May 2019 02:07:07 PM BST
                Category: Software
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Currently (on GNU/Linux systems) GNU Binutils is built in parallel with other
programs. As a result, the moment that the Binutils executable (most
importantly `ld') are being installed, if another program is using them, we
can have a crash.

For some reason, this crash doesn't happen on Fedora or Arch Linux, but on
some versions of Debian, it causes the following crash when we are building
Git (which happens to be built while Binuntils is being installed):


credential-cache--daemon.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized


In a following run of `./configure' (when Binutils has been installed), Git
will build and install successfully.

This bug was previously reported by Raul on an Ubuntu, but rediscovered now.
The reason we didn't report it before was that we weren't able to
understand/reproduce it before, so we thought it may be some temporary thing
caused by some other software conflicting with the build).




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