bug#53415: binutils-mesboot1-2.14 configure phase fails, In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "config.status"

[Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>]

I've seen this failure consistently on one of the machines behind
bordeaux.guix.gnu.org, you can see the full logs via following the "View
build" links here [1].

1: http://data.guix.gnu.org/gnu/store/xd8rnmr0k3fhfhilzi66hnggsnx67d5i-binutils-mesboot1-2.14.drv

I've tried building multiple times on the machine where the failures
occurred, and it's not once succeeded.

From looking at the kept build directory, the config.status file doesn't
exist. There is config.status.VX1nZz, but it's empty.



starting phase `configure'
running ./configure --disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-werror --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --host=i686-unknown-linux-gnu --with-sysroot=/ --prefix=/gnu/store/gvmha2v54svwzxigcbap8862rg3fya0w-binutils-mesboot1-2.14
error: in phase 'configure': uncaught exception:
system-error "stat" "~A: ~S" ("No such file or directory" "config.status") (2) 
phase `configure' failed after 0.0 seconds
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 157: 16 [catch #t #<catch-closure c93c40> ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 15 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure c93c40>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  63: 14 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 432: 13 [eval # #]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2320: 12 [save-module-excursion #<procedure cc1b00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3961:3 ()>]
3966: 11 [#<procedure cc1b00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3961:3 ()>]
1645: 10 [%start-stack load-stack #<procedure cc2ba0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3957:10 ()>]
1650: 9 [#<procedure cc8db0 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 8 [primitive-load "/gnu/store/6i3748r9if4cnjz1bmzh2ghbp0zlv232-binutils-mesboot1-2.14-builder"]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 157: 7 [catch srfi-34 ...]
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
 616: 6 [for-each #<procedure 11a5f60 at guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:911:14 (expr)> ...]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 171: 5 [with-throw-handler #t ...]
In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
 927: 4 [#<procedure 177ce00 at guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:926:21 ()>]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 432: 3 [eval # #]
In guix/build/utils.scm:
 844: 2 [with-atomic-file-replacement "config.status" ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 1 [stat "config.status" #<undefined>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 106: 0 [#<procedure 177cdc0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)> system-error ...]

ice-9/boot-9.scm:106:20: In procedure #<procedure 177cdc0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)>:
ice-9/boot-9.scm:106:20: In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "config.status"
builder for `/gnu/store/xd8rnmr0k3fhfhilzi66hnggsnx67d5i-binutils-mesboot1-2.14.drv' failed with exit code 1