From: "Tomáš Čech" <sleep_walker@suse.cz>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: 20081@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:13:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150311191235.GA29520@venom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150311173230.GA12508@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
>> I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
>> Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':
>
>I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
>You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, for
>instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.
I agree with you that the fishy part is in tarball, but we could make
build more robust. Getting backtrace is not nice way to end a build.
And we alone are getting into this problem it is not usual to
preprocess source files before compilation.
I already worked around the bug to confirm I correctly identified the cause.
S_W
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-11 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 15:02 bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink Tomáš Čech
2015-03-11 17:32 ` Andreas Enge
2015-03-11 19:13 ` Tomáš Čech [this message]
2015-03-12 9:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-12 9:36 ` Tomáš Čech
2015-04-06 21:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-11 20:18 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-04-22 19:06 ` bug#20081: issue is still not fixed Tomáš Čech
2015-04-23 18:58 ` bug#20081: Dangling symlinks gracelessly handled by ‘patch-shebangs’ & co Ludovic Courtès
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