bug#66472: Wrong ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ package used on GNU/Hurd

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hey!

> We discussed it briefly on IRC the other day: our packages get built on
> i586-gnu with the wrong ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ package (2.35 instead of
> 2.37), which causes Coreutils among others to fail to build:
>
> environment variable `GUIX_LOCPATH' set to 
> `/gnu/store/sq6w1nfi59askjfq6b1nqq6z8ld5zh1l-glibc-utf8-locales-2.35/lib/locale'
> phase `set-paths' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
> starting phase `install-locale'
> warning: failed to install 'en_US.utf8' locale: Invalid argument
> phase `install-locale' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
> […]
> starting phase `remove-tests'
> error: in phase 'remove-tests': uncaught exception:
> decoding-error "decode-char" "input decoding error" 1073741930 #<input: 
> tests/misc/ls-misc.pl 15> 
> phase `remove-tests' failed after 0.1 seconds
> […]
> builder for `/gnu/store/vvp0yxvyxsrwmmzli7dsxinr6p9ba3mj-coreutils-9.1.drv' 
> failed with exit code 1
>
> (This is from <https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/2062597/details>, made with
> commit cdbd81ce144f17644ceebd3d08723aa244696a05.)
>
> So we need a better fix than the local workaround in
> 21deb89e287b5821975544118bf137562a91d4e1.
>
> Thoughts?  Perhaps you’ve looked into it already?

Hmm.  I've briefly looked at this but failed to reproduce it.  I've
tried building coreutils, and coreutils-final in a childhurd created
from "a recent" hurd-team branch.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
root@guixydevel ~/src/guix/hurd-team [env]# ./pre-inst-env guix build 
--keep-failed -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) coreutils-final)' 
--without-tests=coreutils
[..]
environment variable `GUIX_LOCPATH' set to 
`/gnu/store/sq6w1nfi59askjfq6b1nqq6z8ld5zh1l-glibc-utf8-locales-2.35/lib/locale'
[..]
phase `unpack' succeeded after 10.4 seconds
starting phase `remove-tests'
phase `remove-tests' succeeded after 0.5 seconds
starting phase `bootstrap'
[..]
successfully built /gnu/store/zryfw42ayqpmk3s15a7s2cn231xsyjf0-coreutils-9.1.drv
/gnu/store/zbdppljxvvw3vc6lz64h5ic3fvihdr7q-coreutils-9.1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and similar for coreutils.

I've seen a similar error before trying to build guile-avahi a while ago
(before 21deb89e287b5821975544118bf137562a91d4e1) and it really puzzled
me.  The idea that a mismatch between GUIX_LOCPATH's glibc version for
locales (2.35) and the glibc actually used (2.37) would cause this
mysterious bug, is kind of a relief...

...although I've got no idea what causes this mismatch or how to fix it
;)

Greetings,
Janneke

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