This test fails on GNU/Hurd: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- checking for library containing posix_spawn... none required checking whether posix_spawn is declared... yes checking for posix_spawn... yes checking whether posix_spawn is declared... (cached) yes checking whether posix_spawn works... yes checking whether posix_spawn rejects scripts without shebang... yes checking whether posix_spawnp rejects scripts without shebang... yes checking whether posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy is supported... yes checking whether posix_spawnattr_setschedparam is supported... yes checking for mbstate_t... yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for sched.h... yes checking for struct sched_param... yes checking whether <sys/select.h> is self-contained... yes checking whether setenv is declared... yes checking for search.h... yes checking for tsearch... yes checking for sigset_t... yes checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes checking for volatile sig_atomic_t... yes checking for sighandler_t... yes checking for posix_spawnattr_t... yes checking for posix_spawn_file_actions_t... yes
[…] make[5]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-guile-3.0.9rc1.drv-0/guile-3.0.9rc1/test-suite/standalone' In execvp of guile: Bad file descriptor test-system-cmds: system* exit status was 127 rather than 42 FAIL: test-system-cmds --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- This looks like a bug in the new ‘posix_spawn’-based ‘system*’, or (more likely) in the ‘posix_spawn’ implementation for the Hurd in glibc. Ludo’.