Re: core-updates, let’s go!

[Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net>]

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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> We’ll have to stay focused in the coming days to fix everything as
>> quickly as we can.
>
> The latest core-updates evaluation is coming together [0], but there are
> still a few notable issues:
>
> * Pandas is failing to build:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/core-updates/python2-pandas-0.19.2.x86_64-linux
>
> * CLISP is failing to build, which breaks SBCL:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/core-updates/clisp-2.49-60.x86_64-linux
>
> * Several packages are failing due to changes in ICU related to type
> definitions. For example, evolution-data-server is failing to build,
> which breaks GNOME:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/core-updates/evolution-data-server-3.24.3.x86_64-linux
>
> * ant-bootstrap failed to build, breaking most (all?) of the Java
> packages. This is being discussed in <https://bugs.gnu.org/30107>. I
> can't retry the ant-bootstrap build because the package is not public,
> so there is no corresponding job on Hydra. An example:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2443807
>
> * And more!
>
> Why not check if the packages you rely on are working on core-updates?
> These are the packages that fail compared to the master branch:
>
> [0] 
> https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109888?compare=master&full=1#tabs-now-fail

I have a patch for CLISP that addresses the source of the build
failure. I'm currently testing to see if the resulting binary can build
SBCL properly. Expect to see the patch on the guix-patches list soon!

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