Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@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).

The binutils source gets patched and repacked, but then decompressing it
fails:

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building /gnu/store/fwz150xjaqbh8n02z6gsmpm9w8lxckak-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv...
starting phase `set-SOURCE-DATE-EPOCH'
phase `set-SOURCE-DATE-EPOCH' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
starting phase `set-paths'
environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/70w6gnl3vzv2rsjhyjg0wsxl3pbnpjb5-bash-mesboot0-2.05b/bin:/gnu/store/2wkjilvkdyb2wrb20ba82dhdpnx2732n-bzip2-mesboot-1.0.8/bin:/gnu/store/4nxicfzj8a390f4scxcgglhdqgbyhlkw-gzip-mesboot-1.2.4/bin:/gnu/store/6fgjdcl2qrrs7fvdznkx1gcbw6wjfrn0-patch-mesboot-2.5.9/bin:/gnu/store/4lpagdav2gm022v1fgzcs8323xrggz4b-sed-mesboot0-1.18/bin:/gnu/store/y70rava2vqf1nilr8smg54qqxdclvrz6-gash-utils-boot-0.1.0/bin:/gnu/store/y9fy4r99q6pqisrw81fn92gk8mzbyzn1-tcc-boot-0.9.27/bin:/gnu/store/krnwfrki71dj6zicl2qwv6bdyqvsxgcg-make-mesboot0-3.80/bin:/gnu/store/xxnxdnjdlav4s8v3lfhg7x7amrqcrv57-gash-boot-0.2.0/bin:/gnu/store/aglbpf6bihv35pwpvdy6chxv318hsafq-bootar-1a/bin:/gnu/store/lgi9x15a0w35mcpd7g1kb9274r6wy4pv-guile-bootstrap-2.0/bin'
environment variable `BASH_LOADABLES_PATH' unset
environment variable `C_INCLUDE_PATH' set to `/gnu/store/2wkjilvkdyb2wrb20ba82dhdpnx2732n-bzip2-mesboot-1.0.8/include:/gnu/store/y9fy4r99q6pqisrw81fn92gk8mzbyzn1-tcc-boot-0.9.27/include'
environment variable `LIBRARY_PATH' set to `/gnu/store/2wkjilvkdyb2wrb20ba82dhdpnx2732n-bzip2-mesboot-1.0.8/lib:/gnu/store/y70rava2vqf1nilr8smg54qqxdclvrz6-gash-utils-boot-0.1.0/lib:/gnu/store/y9fy4r99q6pqisrw81fn92gk8mzbyzn1-tcc-boot-0.9.27/lib:/gnu/store/xxnxdnjdlav4s8v3lfhg7x7amrqcrv57-gash-boot-0.2.0/lib:/gnu/store/aglbpf6bihv35pwpvdy6chxv318hsafq-bootar-1a/lib:/gnu/store/lgi9x15a0w35mcpd7g1kb9274r6wy4pv-guile-bootstrap-2.0/lib'
phase `set-paths' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
starting phase `install-locale'
warning: failed to install 'en_US.utf8' locale: Invalid argument
phase `install-locale' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
starting phase `unpack'
xz: cannot decompress from stdin
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 157: 5 [catch #t #<catch-closure c928e0> ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 4 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure c928e0>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  63: 3 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 432: 2 [eval # #]
In gash/guix-utils.scm:
 138: 1 [call-with-decompressed-port xz ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("decompressed-port failure" (7)) #f]

ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
ERROR: decompressed-port failure (7)
error: in phase 'unpack': uncaught exception:
srfi-34 #<condition &invoke-error [program: "tar" arguments: ("xvf" "/gnu/store/ywf5j03423yiawix3z21xa14hyyvd83z-binutils-2.14.tar.xz") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 1215400> 
phase `unpack' failed after 0.3 seconds
command "tar" "xvf" "/gnu/store/ywf5j03423yiawix3z21xa14hyyvd83z-binutils-2.14.tar.xz" failed with status 1
builder for `/gnu/store/fwz150xjaqbh8n02z6gsmpm9w8lxckak-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv' failed with exit code 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Maxime, does that ring a bell?  Could it be that this bootstrap ‘xz’ is
less capable, or could it be a Gash-Utils bug?

Thanks,
Ludo’.