Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Marius, > > guix-commits@gnu.org writes: > >> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit 2e2db09280d114bbdd0744c73d02aa5c40abdf4a >> Author: Marius Bakke >> Date: Sun Aug 4 16:22:20 2019 +0200 >> >> gnu: strace: Update to 5.2. > > This new version of strace failed to build twice in a row on my Thinkpad > X200 running the Guix system and Linux-libre 5.2.5. I've not yet made a > third attempt. strace-5.1 has always built successfully on this system. > > Specifically, strace-5.2 fails 4 of its tests on my system. See below > for the relevant entries from tests/test-suite.log. Yay, test failures that vary based on hardware or kernel. I found this commit upstream which touches the four failing tests, though I don't really understand what it does: https://github.com/strace/strace/commit/4377e3a1535a0ec3a42da8a1366ad6943f4efa0e Mark: can you try the attached patch and see if it makes a difference? Strace (still) builds for me with this patch, at least.