[bug#51241] [PATCH 0/1] gnu: ragel: Fix build of knot on aarch64-linux.

[Simon South]

This change fixes the build of Knot on AArch64 by patching Ragel to be
explicit in its use of signed "char" types and ranges rather than assuming
"char" is signed by default on all platforms, as it is not on aarch64-linux.

Presently Knot's test suite is failing on aarch64-linux due to the
src/libknot/ypbody.c file being improperly recreated in the package's
"update-parser" phase.  From Knot's runtests.log:

    ok 139 - set input string
    # wanted: 0
    #   seen: -999
    not ok 140 - parse key with a value in UTF-8
    not ok 141 - compare UTF-8 value
    1..141
    # Looks like you failed 2 tests of 141

With the patch applied, ypbody.c is generated as expected (including now the
explicit use of "signed char" where intended) and the tests pass.

I've tested these changes on AArch64 and x86-64.  On the latter I've
sucessfully re-built the output of "guix refresh --list-dependent ragel" with
the exception of ccextractor, which fails (even without this patch) for an
unrelated reason.  (On AArch64 this rebuild would be an unreasonably large
task, though the immediate dependents all build fine.)

--
Simon South
simon@simonsouth.net


Simon South (1):
  gnu: ragel: Fix build of knot on aarch64-linux.

 gnu/local.mk                                  |  1 +
 .../ragel-specify-char-signedness.patch       | 58 +++++++++++++++++++
 gnu/packages/ragel.scm                        |  4 +-
 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/ragel-specify-char-signedness.patch


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