From: Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 50239@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#50239] [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: diffutils: Fix signal processing.
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:39:54 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3088529.eW9a4NE73H@popigai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7f74cb51997e491e98564df10c1b4c9144ef9de.camel@telenet.be>
Hello Maxime,
Thank you for your review!
Em segunda-feira, 30 de agosto de 2021, às 08:43:42 -03, Maxime Devos
escreveu:
> Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via schreef op za 28-08-2021 om
13:43 [-0300]:
> > [...]
> > diffutils has a race condition in its signal processing code which is
> > easy to trigger on powerpc64le-linux. More often than not, it causes
> > the ‘colors’ test to fail and therefore the build of the package fails
> > as well. [...]
>
> Adding this patch makes sense to me too, though I don't have a
> powerpc64le-linux to test this on.
Nice, thanks!
> > Add the patch proposed in Debian bug 922552 which fixes the problem.
>
> Do you think upstream will have its own working patch soonish?
I think so. Paul Eggert was very quick in his response and is already
working on a fix.
> (See <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36488#41>, for people
> who aren't Thiago Jung Bauermann.)
Yeah, the discussion moved unexpectedly to a different bug report. Thanks
for tracking it down and posting the new link.
> If so, it might make sense to wait a little for an ‘official’ patch.
Yes, I agree.
--
Thanks,
Thiago
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-30 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-28 16:43 [bug#50239] [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: diffutils: Fix signal processing Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via
2021-08-30 11:43 ` Maxime Devos
2021-08-30 13:39 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via [this message]
2021-09-06 11:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-06 13:58 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via
2021-09-09 14:41 ` [bug#50239] [PATCH core-updates-frozen v2] " Thiago Jung Bauermann via Guix-patches via
2021-11-12 6:00 ` bug#50239: [PATCH core-updates-frozen] " Maxim Cournoyer
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