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bootstrap phase attempts to run a directory

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From: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Subject: Re: bug#31791: bootstrap phase attempts to run a directory
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:48:23 +0200

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2018-06-12 15:59 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>:

> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:
>
> > I've just noticed that the erlang package has started failing to
> > build. It looks like the bootstrap phase is over eager, and attempts to
> > run the bootstrap directory.
> >
> > I think I'll fix this by deleting the phase,
>
> That’s probably the right thing to do.  The new ‘bootstrap’ phase
> introduced in core-updates would run anything called ‘bootstrap’, but it
> doesn’t check whether that thing is a directory…
>
>
If this is a single occurrence, then I agree this is the way to go, but I
would
make a mental note to fix this in the phase, if this turn out to be more
widespread.


> Ludo’.
>
>
>
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