Re: core-updates frozen

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> Unfortunately, the MIPS box for Hydra is currently off-line, so I don’t
>> have any feedback.  It would be great if you could start building the
>> branch.
>
> I tried building 'hello' with v0.6-389-g1319cfe and got as far as gawk,
> which failed its test suite with the following log tail:
>
> ======== Done with tests that can vary based on character set or locale support ========
> ======== Starting shared library tests ========
> make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/nix-build-gawk-4.1.1.drv-0/gawk-4.1.1/test'
> fnmatch
> ./fnmatch.ok _fnmatch differ: char 1, line 1
> Makefile:3631: recipe for target 'fnmatch' failed

gawk-4.1.1/test/_fnmatch contains the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
gawk: fnmatch.awk:1: error: can't open shared library `fnmatch' for reading (No such file or directory)
EXIT CODE: 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

     Mark