Re: branch core-updates updated: gnu: coreutils-boot0: Fix building on arm architectures.

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

On December 12, 2022 1:47:29 PM UTC, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>guix-commits@gnu.org skribis:
>
>> commit 9782c4529249c8300501202112c095a6589845d3
>> Author: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
>> AuthorDate: Sun Dec 11 22:35:06 2022 +0200
>> 
>>     gnu: coreutils-boot0: Fix building on arm architectures.
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (coreutils-boot0)[arguments]: When
>>     building for arm architectures skip building some programs.
>
>[…]
>
>> +       ,@(if (target-arm?)
>> +           ;; Some binaries fail to build.
>> +           `(#:configure-flags '(,(string-append
>> +                                    "--enable-no-install-program="
>> +                                    ;; the defaults
>> +                                    "arch,coreutils,hostname"
>> +                                    ;; fails on aarch64
>> +                                    ",timeout,sort")))
>
>Isn’t there a risk that things will break down the road if ‘sort’,
>‘hostname’, etc. are missing?  How hard would it be to address the build
>failure instead?
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.

I built all the way out to hello without any problems. Also %final-inputs has coreutils-final, so it really shouldn't be noticable.
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