bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

2021-03-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hey Ludo! > Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > > I can think of two possibilities, then: (1) apply the patch in a phase > rather than via the ‘patches’ field, and (2) arrange so that > ‘patch-and-repack’ does not compress the patched code or compresses it > with the bootstrap g

bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

2021-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy Janneke! Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > 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 st

bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

2021-03-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > Hello! > >> Ludovic Courtès 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: > >> [...] >> >>>

bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

2021-03-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] > ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > ERROR: decompressed-port failure (7) > error: in phase 'unpack': uncaught exception: > srfi-34 # "/gnu/store/ywf5j03423yiawix3z21xa14hyyvd83z-binutils-2.14.tar.xz") > exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 1215400>

bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

2021-03-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hello! > Ludovic Courtès 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 ‘--en

bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

2021-03-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ludovic Courtès 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’l

bug#45962: ‘binutils-mesboot0’ includes non-zero timestamps in ar archives

2021-01-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! 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: guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) gcc-core-mesboot0)' \ --check -K and yes, it does: --8<---