From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Braun Subject: Re: bug#25463: guile-2.0.13 Check errors Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:47:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20170213094751.GA29250@shattrath> References: <4f693f6528e76a93e17e73450e2bc320@openmailbox.org> <87vasg1luf.fsf@gnu.org> <6f657e5c558f7594b14d50dea55f79bd@openmailbox.org> <87vasfqfat.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdDEk-0000qq-GA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 04:48:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdDEg-0001KL-Jn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 04:47:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vasfqfat.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, rennes@openmailbox.org, 25463@debbugs.gnu.org On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:18:02PM +0100, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Manolis Ragkousis skribis: >=20 > > Locally on Hurd I am using this patch > > http://paste.lisp.org/display/338954 on the glibc/hurd package to wor= k > > around that test failure. Ideally we need to modify the way guile > > handles time.[1] >=20 > Does =E2=80=98glibc/hurd=E2=80=99 have this patch in =E2=80=98core-upda= tes=E2=80=99? Should it? >=20 > Would it make sense to address this issue in Guile instead of libc, > Richard? I guess the answer depends on how many programs make this > assumption besides Guile. I'd say applications shouldn't be concerned with that, this problem should remain solved by the system components, and libc (or procfs or whatever) are the right places to deal with it. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2013-06/msg00089.html. --=20 Richard Braun