On 03/23/2018 12:32 AM, The Fireplace wrote:
>
> Alright, I’ve tested using the process you described, with my only 
> change to it being to add a few needed arguments 
> <https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/36DRSHvbqw/> for my setup to ./configure. 
> When I ran make, it ended somewhat quickly, with the following error:
>
> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/X4s6McxBBd/
>
Thanks. I installed the attached patch into Gnulib and committed this 
into diffutils. Please try the same procedure again for diffutils. 
CC'ing bug-gnulib.

> Alright, I’ve finished testing. I found -Werror, but removing it 
> didn’t seem to work, so I commented out the unused function it was 
> warning me about instead. After doing that, make finished 
> successfully. However, when running make check, one test failed:
>
> ../build-aux/test-driver: line 107:  6309 Aborted                 
> (core dumped) "$@" > $log_file 2>&1
>
> FAIL: test-fcntl
>
> If you need a full log on that, I can get it for you, just tell me 
> which file you need.
>
gnulib-tests/test-fcntl.log would be the first thing. Also, perhaps you 
can run the program gnulib-tests/test-fcntl under GDB and see exactly 
where it crashes.