Ludovic Courtès writes: Hello!
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis: > >> On #bootstrappable, mid-kid reported that ‘binutils-mesboot0’ in >> commencement.scm lacks ‘--enable-deterministic-archives’. So I checked >> if this had an effect by running: > [...] > >> Apparently Binutils 2.14 didn’t have ‘--enable-deterministic-archives’ >> so we’ll have to patch it. > > Sikonas on #bootstrappable provided a patch for that (thanks!) so I went > ahead and gave it a try on ‘core-updates’ (Guix patch attached). Great! > The binutils source gets patched and repacked, but then decompressing it > fails: [..] > Maxime, does that ring a bell? Could it be that this bootstrap ‘xz’ is > less capable, or could it be a Gash-Utils bug? Currently, we avoid using non-bootstrapped binaries in the bootstrap, that includes 'xz'; earlier in the bootstrap that includes also 'patch'. See also gcc-core-mesboot0: it applies the patch in a manual phase. So I'm not sure if we want to start depending on 'xz' an this stage? Greetings, Janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
