Subject: Re: bug#44763: Error when 'make'ing latest version of coreutils
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Chris Elvidge <[email-masked]>, Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>, Akim Demaille <[email-masked]>, Pádraig Brady<[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:21:54 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Thanks for reporting your recipe for working around all these problems. I've 
installed patches for the problems into coreutils and gnulib and am closing the 
bug report.

On 11/21/20 3:45 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> git commit -m 'build: update gnulib submodule to latest' gnulib 2>&1 | tee -a 
> $outfiles/out_commit.1.txt

I suggest doing the bootstrap after this 'git commit', not earlier.

Because of the abovementioned patches, you should no longer need to do the 
following steps:

> # Berny's addition
> git clean -xdfq && ./bootstrap 2>&1 | tee -a $outfiles/out_bootstrap.2.txt
> 
> ./configure 2>&1 | tee -a $outfiles/out_configure.1.txt
> 
> # do edit to make make work
> # Akim's change - make it expect a long not a long long
> sed -i -e '2301s/%"PRIdMAX"/%ld/' lib/parse-datetime.y
> sed -n 2301p lib/parse-datetime.y
> 
> # do three edits to make make check work
> # put 'return NULL;' back before '/*NOTREACHED*/' # explained by Berny
> sed -i -e '184s#\(/\*NOTREACHED\*/\)#return NULL; \1#' 
> gnulib/tests/test-nl_langinfo-mt.c
> sed -n 184p gnulib/tests/test-nl_langinfo-mt.c
> sed -i -e '94s#\(/\*NOTREACHED\*/\)#return NULL; \1#' 
> gnulib/tests/test-setlocale_null-mt-all.c
> sed -n 94p gnulib/tests/test-setlocale_null-mt-all.c
> sed -i -e '94s#\(/\*NOTREACHED\*/\)#return NULL; \1#' 
> gnulib/tests/test-setlocale_null-mt-one.c
> sed -n 94p gnulib/tests/test-setlocale_null-mt-one.c
> 
> # pause here to make sure edits done properly
> read -p "Press return to continue" junk