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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Binutils build failure on MIPS
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:48:34 +0200
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Hello!

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wro=
te:
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

[...]

>> And now for MIPS!  I was so joyful that I almost forgot that
>> binutils-cross-boot0-2.27 fails to build on MIPS:
>>
>>   https://hydra.gnu.org/build/1470440/nixlog/3/raw
>>
>> I cannot find any error message in the build log, so I don=E2=80=99t kno=
w what=E2=80=99s
>> going on.
>>
>> Could someone take a look?
>
> I found this:
>
> /tmp/nix-build-binutils-cross-boot0-2.27.drv-0/binutils-2.27/ld/configure:
> unhandled emulation
> [...]
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:7125: configure-ld] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> Something similar was discussed in comp.gnu.binutils, it was also about m=
ips...
>
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=3Dcache:waWLFBpEIPQJ:perma=
link.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/69283+&cd=3D1&hl=3Den&ct=3Dclnk&gl=
=3Dus&lr=3Dlang_de%7Clang_en%7Clang_fr

This is fixed in 789f09a073a7239aee2e551d52b5b5ea9f41bb90!  \o/

It was a silly Bash 4.2 bug described in:

  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-007

Ludo=E2=80=99.