Re: An update on ‘core-updates’

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 01:55:47PM +0100, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> 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

The update to stage0-posix, mes-boot and tcc-boot0 are now in
core-updates, and I didn't see any regressions on x86_64/i686.

> > 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...

Currently there's an issue on riscv64/ppc64le (and maybe others?) about
zstd not being available for patch-and-repack for make-boot0 and
perl-boot0 (and probably others).

> > 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.

you might need ,@(if (target-hurd?)

my debugging trick is to make the changes and then check the "else" case
to see if it's changed anything there.  Since it looks like you're not
trying to change the flags for other architectures the derivation
shouldn't change if you've gotten the rest of the patch correct :)

> Greetings,
> Janneke
> 

> From 0e1bf5714261de8f25baabca3b826284102b6c40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> Message-ID: <0e1bf5714261de8f25baabca3b826284102b6c40.1705062924.git.janneke@gnu.org>
> From: Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:24:14 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: gcc: Fix building cross compiler for the Hurd.
> 
> This is a follow-up to commit
>     d21d596f72ad491937123980e65d3efedc903bd6
>     gnu: gcc: Support objc, objc++ by default.
> 
> * gnu/packages/gcc.scm (gcc-4.7): Only build c,c++ when building for the Hurd.
> 
> Change-Id: I21ce5dd30d7ab253e6a46173eb674b55d6c01505
> ---
>  gnu/packages/gcc.scm | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/gcc.scm b/gnu/packages/gcc.scm
> index ecd88931eb..111b096185 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/gcc.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/gcc.scm
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>  ;;; Copyright © 2022 Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2023 Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2023 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
> +;;; Copyright © 2024 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
>  ;;;
>  ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>  ;;;
> @@ -132,9 +133,11 @@ (define-public gcc-4.7
>              ;; contents of (maybe-target-tools).
>              (list 'quasiquote
>                    (append
> -                   '("--enable-plugin"
> -                     "--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++"
> -                     "--disable-multilib"
> +                   '("--enable-plugin")
> +                   (if (target-hurd?)
> +                       '("--enable-languages=c,c++")
> +                       '("--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++"))
> +                   '("--disable-multilib"
>                       "--with-system-zlib"
>  
>                       ;; No pre-compiled libstdc++ headers, to save space.
> 
> base-commit: 8e9573784f06ec2af96f9298c6dd4346688888fb
> -- 
> 2.41.0
> 

> 
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