It looks like bless is building fine. It had two recent failures (March 2017), but more recent correct builds.
http://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/core-updates/bless-1p02.x86_64-linux I also see other builds of bless working just fine here: http://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/bless-1p02.x86_64-linux http://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/release-0.12.0/bless-1p02.x86_64-linux Perhaps this is not a huge issue anymore? Joshua