On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:54:42PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > In linuxfromscratch, libarchive is only mentioned as "recommended" to build > > cmake: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/cmake.html > > So maybe we could take it out from the cmake inputs? > > I do not know enough about this to decide either way.
In that case, from what I understand, cmake will use its bundled copy, so it is not a good idea to drop the input. > I haven't yet looked more closely at what the tests are trying to > establish. Are you suggesting that the tests fail because GNU tar > behaves differently? I wondered about this; it is quite probable they behave differently. But the Makefile calls a test program which I think is bsdtar in this case. > I would like to understand the test failure better, but on the other > side this failure blocks a considerable number of packages motivating me > to get rid of the problem. I don't know what side effects the above > configure flags would have. Could we just disable these tests for now? Well, I suppose they have no side effects except for disabling the build of bsdtar and bsdcpio, and I do not see why we would have a use for them on guix. Cmake itself links to libarchive as shown by "ldd", so it should not be affected. Andreas
