From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: git cannot be built Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:44:23 -0400 Message-ID: <878tisedbc.fsf@netris.org> References: <87wp6fnzmh.fsf@elephly.net> <877eyds7nj.fsf@netris.org> <87efslnp78.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60987) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfWuQ-0004bl-Cw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:44:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfWuN-000536-OG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:44:50 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:54780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfWuN-00052i-Jk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:44:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87efslnp78.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:02:51 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> Commit 7f171fdaadb15bb1b313b25e9be3d1988b0f650f broke git for me. I >>> cannot build it from source because one of the many tests appears to >>> fail. >>> >>> This is on x86_64. I have not tried this on other architectures. >> >> FWIW, it built successfully on my x86_64 GuixSD system. I've >> transitioned to building everything locally. > > It also worked on my i686 machine, but it failed repeatedly on my x200s. I built it on a Thinkpad X200. Perhaps I got lucky. Also, it case it's relevant, I've been using linux-libre@4.9 with selected patches from Debian. Mark