Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:

> 2017-12-31 16:11 GMT+01:00 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>:
>
>> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > samba@4.7.3 fails on core-updates, commit 677bc34.
>> >
>> > This is the error message:
>> > error: file default/docs-xml/manpages/smb.conf.5.xml
>> > xsltRunStylesheet : run failed
>> > Waf: Leaving directory /tmp/guix-build-samba-4.7.3.
>> drv-0/samba-4.7.3/bin'
>> > Build failed: -> task failed (err #11): {task: manpages/smb.conf.5
>> > smb.conf.5.xml,parameters.all.xml -> smb.conf.5} make: *** [Makefile:8:
>> > all] Error 1 phasebuild' failed after 588.9 seconds
>> > note: keeping build directory /tmp/guix-build-samba-4.7.3.drv-0' builder
>> > for/gnu/store/pc07rliscyvldzkj2gbq2lzcaj22m9wh-samba-4.7.3.drv' failed
>> with
>> > exit code 1
>>
>> Apparently the Samba man page blows up the XSL parser[0].  This patch
>> fixes it, and is carried by (at least) Debian, Fedora and Gentoo:
>>
>
> Should I prepare a patch to include this patch into guix, or you will do it?
> Or do we have any other plan to make this work?

There was a patch in the previous message:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?att=1;filename=0001-gnu-docbook-xsl-Disable-recursion-in-string-substitu.patch;bug=29782;msg=8

Will push it soon.