GNU bug report logs - #44763
Error when 'make'ing latest version of coreutils

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Message #64 received at 44763-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Chris Elvidge <celvidge001 <at> gmail.com>,
 Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>,
 Akim Demaille <akim.demaille <at> gmail.com>, Pádraig Brady
 <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 44763-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44763: Error when 'make'ing latest version of coreutils
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:21:54 -0800

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

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