Re: 04/07: gnu: strace: Update to 5.2.

[Marius Bakke]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Marius,
>
> address@hidden writes:
>
>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit 2e2db09280d114bbdd0744c73d02aa5c40abdf4a
>> Author: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Sun Aug 4 16:22:20 2019 +0200
>>
>>     gnu: strace: Update to 5.2.
>
> This new version of strace failed to build twice in a row on my Thinkpad
> X200 running the Guix system and Linux-libre 5.2.5.  I've not yet made a
> third attempt.  strace-5.1 has always built successfully on this system.
>
> Specifically, strace-5.2 fails 4 of its tests on my system.  See below
> for the relevant entries from tests/test-suite.log.

Yay, test failures that vary based on hardware or kernel.

I found this commit upstream which touches the four failing tests,
though I don't really understand what it does:

https://github.com/strace/strace/commit/4377e3a1535a0ec3a42da8a1366ad6943f4efa0e

Mark: can you try the attached patch and see if it makes a difference?
Strace (still) builds for me with this patch, at least.

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