Re: Test failure when building libarchive-3.1.2

["Jan Synáček" <jan.synacek@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Jan Synáček <jan.synacek@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Reference files will be read from:
>> /tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/tar/test
>> Running tests on:
>> "/tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/./bsdtar"
>> Exercising: bsdtar 3.1.2 - libarchive 3.1.2
>
> [...]
>
>>  17: test_option_b                                     FAIL
>
> Ricardo reported the same issue a while back:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-03/msg00182.html
>
> What platform is this on, i686?
>
> It would be nice to see if this systematically fails.  If it is
> non-deterministic, we should build it with --keep-failed until it fails
> (removing successful builds with ‘guix gc -d’), collect useful info from
> the build tree, and debug.
>
> (You can also work around it by enabling substitutes since Hydra had no
> problems building it.)
>
> Ludo’.

I debugged this and the upstream patch
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/b539b2e597b566fe3c4b49cb61c9eef83e5e052d
fixes the problem. You will probably want to add it to the build process.

Cheers,
-- 
Jan Synáček