Re: Test failure when building libarchive-3.1.2

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jan Synáček <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Jan Synáček <address@hidden> wrote:

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>> I debugged this and the upstream patch
>> https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/b539b2e597b566fe3c4b49cb61c9eef83e5e052d
>> fixes the problem. You will probably want to add it to the build process.
>
> I just realized I need to do this locally as well to fix the
> compilation...:) How do I modify the build process and add the patch
> to the store?

Just list the patch in the ‘patches’ field of libarchive.  See for
instance ‘grep’ in gnu/packages/base.scm for an example.

Ludo’.