Hi! csanchez...@gmail.com (Carlos Sánchez de La Lama) skribis:
> still trying too bootstrap linux-powerpc. This is exciting, BTW! > I find the boostrap binary "tar" fails to execute xz (which is un turn > required to build make on continue the bootstrap process), because it > can not find bash. > > The problem was introduced in your commit > > 74d637397b44a90d2dbc2ac100b38591dd4f81eb > > which upgraded tar to 1.29. That commit also added the substitution of > "/bin/sh" to "<bash-store-path>/bin/sh" in src/system.c when compiling > tar, which is fine in general, but gets broken when %static-binaries > does a remove-store-reference for all the static binaries. > > Is that substitution really needed? That substitution is needed, because otherwise ‘tar’ fails to spawn external programs when in a build environment (the chroot lacks /bin/sh), which causes its own test suite to fail. I understand that this is not OK for the binaries produced by make-bootstrap.scm. However, /bin/sh is not OK either, AFAICS. In ‘raw-build’ in bootstrap.scm, we run: xz -dc thing.tar.xz | tar xv to work around this problem. Isn’t it enough? Thanks, Ludo’.
