GNU bug report logs - #50239
[PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: diffutils: Fix signal processing.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 50239-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>
Cc: 50239-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50239: [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: diffutils: Fix
 signal processing.
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:00:33 -0500

Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com> writes:

> diffutils has a race condition in its signal processing code which is easy
> to trigger on powerpc64le-linux. More often than not, it causes the
> ‘colors’ test to fail and therefore the build of the package fails as well.
>
> Add the patch proposed in Debian bug 922552 which fixes the problem.
>
> * gnu/packages/patches/diffutils-fix-signal-processing.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> * gnu/packages/base.scm (diffutils)[source]: Use it.
> ---

Applied with commit f234f5b0e120ea8cfa850440a428c3bc211b329b to
core-updates-frozen, and diffutils was updated to 3.8 with
57fd6d511c678eeee88f254c511847a56f86f85f there as well.

Closing,

Thank you!

Maxim
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 233 days ago.

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