Subject: Re: bug#50346: core-updates-frozen: strace 5.13 fails "make check" on AArch64
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Simon South <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:13:36 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Simon,

Simon South <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Modify the invocation of strace's "readlink" and "readlinkat" tests to prevent
> them from failing due to an additional system call made by Guix's patched
> version of glibc.
>
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (strace)[source]: Add patch.
> [arguments]<#:phases>: Do not disable the "readlink" test now that it can
> succeed.
> * gnu/packages/patches/strace-fix-readlink-readlinkat-tests.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.

Good catch!  Pushed with a shortened patch file name as
b0eaa4f2d73cd7746a41d1f970b95243f2098458.

Thanks,
Ludo’.