ee3ebf1a357bd4eb36a2fa1790a7b549cffb305a is the first bad commit.

2017-12-03 9:41 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com>:

>  8dd35a0e2 is good
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> 2017-12-02 21:12 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com>:
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>> It seems, that we have a breakage in current core-updates. m4, gettext,
>> and at least a few other packages fail to build.
>>
>> We had a discussion about that on irc, here are the important points:
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>> [09:34:53] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567250> * g_bor
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>> [09:34:58] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567251> <g_bor> Hello
>> guix!
>> [09:37:37] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567253> <g_bor> I
>> just tried to build something no core-updates and m4 and python-boot0 does
>> not build, I get a message that a decoding error occured in exception
>> dispatcher. It seem like it's locale related, I'm on hu_HU.UTF-8
>> [09:38:03] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567254> <g_bor> I'm
>> tring this now on master to see if the problem persists.
>> [09:38:10] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567255> <g_bor> Anyone
>> seen that?
>> [16:46:05] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567672>
>> <civodul> mb[m]1: you were right about the failing installation tests
>> [16:46:16] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567673>
>> <civodul> it did work a couple of days ago though, so there's hope
>> [16:47:16] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567675> <mb[m]1> civodul:
>> Any idea what caused it? Haven't been paying attention lately.
>> [16:47:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567676> *
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>> [16:53:03] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567677>
>> <civodul> mb[m]1: no idea yet, let's see
>> [16:54:11] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567678> <mb[m]1> I
>> don't understand why core-updates is failing. I've bisected glibc down to
>> the first two commits on the 2.26 branch, and also tried reverting the
>> libatomic-ops update.
>> [16:54:35] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567679>
>> <civodul> how's it failing?
>> [16:54:41] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567680>
>> <civodul> well maybe i should focus on one thing at a time :-)
>> [16:54:46] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567681> <mb[m]1> So
>> the culprit is likely one of these: https://sourceware.org/
>> git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=665ce88d68fd13c5c...
>> <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=665ce88d68fd13c5c4cbaf2808434c618745137c>
>>  and https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=dc258ce6
>> 2ae0bbb45...
>> <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=dc258ce62ae0bbb456c6a855dbb6b384ecf7e988>
>> [16:55:27] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567682> *
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>> [16:55:31] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567683> <mb[m]1> civodul:
>> "m4" and a few others fail like this: https://paste.debian.net/998765/
>> [16:55:36] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567684>
>> <civodul> you'll find yourself being a libc hacker without noticing
>> [16:55:41] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567685> <mb[m]1>
>> Hehe.
>> [16:56:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567686>
>> <civodul> in this case it's the 'configure' file that leads to a
>> decoding error
>> [16:56:28] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567687>
>> <civodul> could you check its encoding?
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>> [16:57:52] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567689> <mb[m]1> I
>> don't currently have the files. But I had built much further before the
>> glibc update (with the C++ fixes only).
>> [16:57:56] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567690> *
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>> [17:00:55] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567693> <mb[m]1> I
>> unpacked the m4 source and ran `file` on it:
>> [17:00:57] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567694> <mb[m]1> configure:
>> POSIX shell script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable
>> [17:01:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567695>
>> <civodul> so it could be an issue with iconv in the new libc
>> [17:06:59] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567697> *
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>> [17:11:08] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567699> <g_bor>
>> hello!
>> [17:11:18] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567700> <g_bor> Anyone
>> seen this?
>> [17:11:30] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567701> <g_bor> It's
>> on core-updates:
>> [17:11:51] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567702> <g_bor> starting
>> phase `patch-usr-bin-file' Backtrace: 16 (primitive-load
>> "/gnu/store/4jf0jcpvjn6r2warav5xmxhmddf?") In ice-9/eval.scm: 191:35 15
>> (_ _) In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 863:16 14 (every1 #<procedure 9b0b40 at
>> /gnu/store/yifqwmdxc4pmd?> ?) In /gnu/store/yifqwmdxc4pmdpm73di
>> q03lqkprnrizn-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: 711:27 13
>> (_ _) 171:4 12 (patch-usr-bin-file #:native-inputs _ #:inputs _ # _) In
>> srfi/srfi
>> [17:13:38] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567703>
>> <civodul> g_bor: mb[m]1 was just reporting the exact same issue :-)
>> [17:13:45] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567704> <mb[m]1> g_bor:
>> Yes, I'm currently trying to track it down.
>> [17:14:36] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567705> <g_bor> I've
>> also seen it on python-boot0, slightly different message.
>> [17:14:55] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567706> <g_bor> Can
>> this be locale related?
>> [17:15:05] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567707> <g_bor> I
>> have hu_HU.utf8 here.
>> [17:16:04] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567708> *
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>> [17:17:26] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567709> <g_bor> mb[m]1:
>> can I be of assistance?
>> [17:18:19] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567711> *
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>> [17:18:42] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567713> <mb[m]1> g_bor:
>> The failure happens in the build container which uses a fixed locale (C?).
>> [17:19:17] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567714> <g_bor> Ok,
>> then it's not that.
>> [17:19:38] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567715> <g_bor> It
>> just seemd to be some character conversion error...
>> [17:20:08] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567716> <g_bor> Maybe
>> some invalid charaters leaked in somehow...
>> [17:20:15] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567717> <g_bor> Wait
>> a sec...
>> [17:22:51] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567719> <g_bor> It
>> seems, that a lot of packages are broken.
>> [17:23:01] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567720> <g_bor> I
>> laso got that for gettext.
>> [17:26:26] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567721> *
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>> [17:30:38] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567723> <mb[m]1> Can
>> it be ncurses related?
>> [17:31:12] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567724> <g_bor> Might
>> be...
>> [17:31:21] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567725> <g_bor> did
>> not checked that.
>> [17:32:01] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567726> <mb[m]1> g_bor:
>> Can you see if reverting 667082d59104d4b964dce878f5e8c0f8ad1be958 makes
>> a difference?
>> [17:32:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567727> <g_bor> Ok,
>> i will try that
>> [17:36:36] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567731> <g_bor> Do
>> we know about what was the last time it was working?
>> [17:36:58] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567732> <g_bor> We
>> could do a git bisect on core-updates?
>> [17:37:13] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567733> <g_bor> Do
>> we have a good commit to start from?
>> [18:40] <g_bor> Ok, now it's building.
>> [18:40] <g_bor> I think this will take a time...
>> [18:41] <g_bor> (guile does take some time :) )
>> [18:42] <g_bor> I'm trying to help to switch the default icedtea to
>> icedtea-8, and we'd like to that on core-updates...
>> [18:43] <g_bor> I've just written on the mailing list, that it would be
>> nice if we could have substitutes for the core-updates gnu-build-system.
>> [18:43] <g_bor> That could speed things like this up.
>> [18:50] <efraim> mb[m]1: just popped in for a second, core-updates is
>> failing on aarch64 also
>> [18:50] <efraim> civodul too ^
>> [18:52] <g_bor> Oh, well.
>> [18:52] <g_bor> Do we have a bug report on that already?
>> [18:53] <g_bor> Now I'm trying what mb[m]1 suggested, by reverting the
>> ncurses commit.
>> [18:54] <g_bor> It might be easier to track related information in a
>> bug...
>>
>> [20:52] <g_bor> reverting 667082d59104d4b964dce878f5e8c0f8ad1be958 did
>> not help
>>
>> Does anyone know of a last working commit id?
>>
>> I'm trying to seen if it's working after last merge of master, but if
>> someone knows a later point to start investigating the issue would help.
>>
>> It would also help, if someone with a more powerful computer could help,
>> as building on mine is very slow.
>>
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