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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me>
Cc: 45165@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45165: binutils-mesboot0 fails at configure, cannot find lex
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:33:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6ukkg1r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFC3D46-B961-479D-BCA9-273C150BF9CC@carldong.me> (Carl Dong's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:28:37 -0500")

Carl Dong writes:

Hello!

> Some more information from my debugging:
>
> 1. This error is reproducible even when I specify --cores=1, which is very strange
> 2. I have attached the full log to this email

Diffing this with the build log from

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) binutils-mesboot0)' --log-file
wget https://ci.guix.gnu.org/log/jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14 -O jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.gz
gunzip jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.gz
diff -u jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14  2020-10-10-binutils-mesboot0.log
[..]

@@ -5538,16 +5537,16 @@
 checking for i386-unknown-linux-windres... no
 checking for windres... windres
 checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
-updating cache ./config.cache
+not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache
 creating ./config.status
 creating Makefile
[..]
@@ -5558,7 +5557,7 @@
 checking whether the C compiler (tcc -D __GLIBC_MINOR__=6 -g ) works... yes
 checking whether the C compiler (tcc -D __GLIBC_MINOR__=6 -g ) is a cross-compiler... no
 checking whether we are using GNU C... no
-checking for ranlib... (cached) true
+checking for ranlib... true
 checking for POSIXized ISC... no
 checking for ANSI C header files... yes
 checking for working const... yes
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

config values do not get cached (why is config.cache
unwritable?)...which seems to lead to a misdectected presence of lex:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
-@ build-succeeded /gnu/store/bz6xjpzlwf57m4bg3w5ihlq638sscx54-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv -
-checking for flex... (cached) /tmp/guix-build-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv-0/binutils-2.14/missing flex
-checking for flex... (cached) /tmp/guix-build-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv-0/binutils-2.14/missing flex
-checking for yywrap in -ll... (cached) no
-checking lex output file root... (cached) lex.yy
[..]
+checking for flex... no
+checking for lex... no
+./configure: line 4417: flex: command not found
+checking for flex... lex
+checking for yywrap in -ll... no
+checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 4505: lex: command not found
+configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up
+make: *** [configure-ld] Error 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

What is your build environment/version of guix you're using?  It looks
like some unreproducible bit is leaking in somewhere??

Greetings,
Janneke

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-11  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-10 20:01 bug#45165: binutils-mesboot0 fails at configure, cannot find lex Carl Dong
2020-12-10 22:28 ` Carl Dong
2020-12-11  6:33   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2020-12-11 16:37     ` Carl Dong
2020-12-15 18:50       ` Carl Dong
2020-12-16  0:46         ` Carl Dong
2020-12-16 17:49           ` Carl Dong
2020-12-22 14:33           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-22 16:42             ` Carl Dong
2021-01-18 22:48             ` Carl Dong
2021-01-19 23:03               ` Carl Dong
2021-02-03 19:18                 ` Carl Dong
2021-02-06 21:04                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-25 15:57 ` Tom Hiller
2021-02-27 10:33 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-06-09 13:36 ` kitzman via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-06-09 15:12   ` kitzman via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-24  5:58 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-24  8:11   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-02-24 13:09     ` kitzman via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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