Subject: Re: bug#26497: glibc 2.25 broken on i686

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:29:59 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> Guix on i686 is broken since the update to glibc 2.25.  There are
>> seemingly random segfaults all over the place on my server.
>>
>> Ludo posted this upstream discussion:
>>
>>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21182
>
> Perhaps we don’t see the problem when running i686 code on x86_64.
>
>> I could test the patch on my i686 system, but it would take much too
>> long for me to build the system from source on my machines.
>
> Could you first check if there’s a simple way to reproduce it on your
> machine?  For example, run “guix build coreutils” or “guix build
> coreutils --check” and see if that fails.
>
> If it does, you could arrange to test the patch just in this setup.

Do you mean apply the patch and build on i686 or apply the patch and
build with “--system” on my x86_64 system?

On the i686 system I cannot run anything with the latest glibc, so
building there will likely fail unless the bug is fixed.

-- 
Ricardo

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