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bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archiv
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives |
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Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:54:29 +0100 |
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Ludovic Courtès writes:
Hello!
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> On #bootstrappable, mid-kid reported that ‘binutils-mesboot0’ in
>> commencement.scm lacks ‘--enable-deterministic-archives’. So I checked
>> if this had an effect by running:
> [...]
>
>> Apparently Binutils 2.14 didn’t have ‘--enable-deterministic-archives’
>> so we’ll have to patch it.
>
> Sikonas on #bootstrappable provided a patch for that (thanks!) so I went
> ahead and gave it a try on ‘core-updates’ (Guix patch attached).
Great!
> The binutils source gets patched and repacked, but then decompressing it
> fails:
[..]
> Maxime, does that ring a bell? Could it be that this bootstrap ‘xz’ is
> less capable, or could it be a Gash-Utils bug?
Currently, we avoid using non-bootstrapped binaries in the bootstrap,
that includes 'xz'; earlier in the bootstrap that includes also 'patch'.
See also gcc-core-mesboot0: it applies the patch in a manual phase. So
I'm not sure if we want to start depending on 'xz' an this stage?
Greetings,
Janneke
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