Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hi!

> We’ve updated GCC 11.x, glibc, binutils, and various packages from (gnu
> packages base).  Notable exceptions are Coreutils, Findutils, sed, and
> tar; I tried but that’s a bit more work, notably because their variants
> in commencement.scm would no longer build because their build scripts
> use sed patterns not supported by Gash-Utils.

CC'ing Ekaitz and I'll also relay this to #guix-risc-v.  There's quite
some work going on in commencement, we can probably incorporate these.

I think a possible workaround was suggested by Timothy

    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gash-devel/2023-09/msg00002.html

> Long story short: I’d like us to freeze and merge the branch ASAP,
> notably because the glibc graft on ‘master’ leads to a bad user
> experience.  I’m happy with the current state of the branch and wouldn’t
> mind postponing remaining upgrades for the next cycle.
>
> Thoughts?

FWIW, I'm all for this.  The longer we wait, the harder it gets?  As
soon as everything works, see below...

> Remaining work includes: checking that cross-compilation targets still
> work after the recent Binutils updates, checking i586-gnu (GNU/Hurd) and
> other platforms, and possibly addressing the Gawk non-determinism
> issue².

Building a bare-hurd system on core-updates succeeded "not long ago"
(after the glibc+locales patch series I think) but now fails on
gcc-cross-sans-libc-i586-pc-gnu-11.4.0

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Configuring in i586-pc-gnu/libobjc
[..]
checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
[..]
builder for `/gnu/store/94lj8490ixpd997m3siaxw5yhd52za6g-gcc-cross-sans-libc-i586-pc-gnu-11.4.0.drv' failed with exit code 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Any ideas what may have happened/changed here?  Hmm, it looks like

    d21d596f72ad491937123980e65d3efedc903bd6
    gnu: gcc: Support objc, objc++ by default.

was probably the problem.  Trying the attached patch, Hurd system not
build yet.

Greetings,
Janneke