Subject: Re: bug#43986: core-updates' grep and coreutils fail strerror_r and perror2 tests in gnulib-tests on armhf-on-aarch64

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:26:04 +0200

Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> How do I debug this?
>>
>> $ guix-core-updates/guix/pre-inst-env guix environment -s armhf-linux --pure grep
>>
>> needs grep (it's in the implicit native inputs), and that grep has a test failure.
>
> Does this work?
>
>   guix environment -s armhf-linux -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) grep-final)'
>
> Otherwise you can approximate it by building with -K, step into the
> /tmp/guix-build-... directory and run 'source environment-variables'.

Also note that I upgraded ‘grep’ to 3.5 in the meantime (commit
370adc91b59ac06243067a31122f567a7c35b24b).

Ludo’.