Subject: bug#77697: closed (Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#77697: cross compile build of 3.12 diffutils fails)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:29:02 +0000

Your bug report

#77697: cross compile build of 3.12 diffutils fails

which was filed against the diffutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#77697: cross compile build of 3.12 diffutils fails
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Rudi Heitbaum <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:28:06 -0700
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Thanks for reporting that. Should be fixed here:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=d9083a4cc638cf9c7dfc3cc534a7c6b4debf50ab

Subject: cross compile build of 3.12 diffutils fails
From: Rudi Heitbaum <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:22:49 +0000
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Hi Team,

With the latest gnulib incorporated into diffutils the follow build
error occurs when cross compiling.

checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking whether strcasecmp works... configure: error: in '/var/media/DATA/home-rudi/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-devel/build/diffutils-3.12/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu':
configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
See 'config.log' for more details

The same is occuring with nano 8.4 build - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66978

This is occuring with Ubuntu 24.04.

Regards
Rudi