It seems, that we have a breakage in current core-updates. m4, gettext, and at least a few other packages fail to build.
We had a discussion about that on irc, here are the important points: [09:34:53] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567250> * g_bor has joined #guix [09:34:58] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567251> <g_bor> Hello guix! [09:37:37] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567253> <g_bor> I just tried to build something no core-updates and m4 and python-boot0 does not build, I get a message that a decoding error occured in exception dispatcher. It seem like it's locale related, I'm on hu_HU.UTF-8 [09:38:03] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567254> <g_bor> I'm tring this now on master to see if the problem persists. [09:38:10] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567255> <g_bor> Anyone seen that? [16:46:05] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567672> <civodul> mb[m]1: you were right about the failing installation tests [16:46:16] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567673> <civodul> it did work a couple of days ago though, so there's hope [16:47:16] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567675> <mb[m]1> civodul: Any idea what caused it? Haven't been paying attention lately. [16:47:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567676> * kristofer has joined #guix [16:53:03] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567677> <civodul> mb[m]1: no idea yet, let's see [16:54:11] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567678> <mb[m]1> I don't understand why core-updates is failing. I've bisected glibc down to the first two commits on the 2.26 branch, and also tried reverting the libatomic-ops update. [16:54:35] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567679> <civodul> how's it failing? [16:54:41] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567680> <civodul> well maybe i should focus on one thing at a time :-) [16:54:46] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567681> <mb[m]1> So the culprit is likely one of these: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=665ce88d68fd13c5c... <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=665ce88d68fd13c5c4cbaf2808434c618745137c> and https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=dc258ce62ae0bbb45... <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=dc258ce62ae0bbb456c6a855dbb6b384ecf7e988> [16:55:27] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567682> * jonsger has joined #guix [16:55:31] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567683> <mb[m]1> civodul: "m4" and a few others fail like this: https://paste.debian.net/998765/ [16:55:36] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567684> <civodul> you'll find yourself being a libc hacker without noticing [16:55:41] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567685> <mb[m]1> Hehe. [16:56:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567686> <civodul> in this case it's the 'configure' file that leads to a decoding error [16:56:28] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567687> <civodul> could you check its encoding? [16:57:52] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567689> <mb[m]1> I don't currently have the files. But I had built much further before the glibc update (with the C++ fixes only). [16:57:56] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567690> * jonsger has joined #guix [17:00:55] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567693> <mb[m]1> I unpacked the m4 source and ran `file` on it: [17:00:57] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567694> <mb[m]1> configure: POSIX shell script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable [17:01:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567695> <civodul> so it could be an issue with iconv in the new libc [17:06:59] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567697> * ryanwatkins has joined #guix [17:11:08] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567699> <g_bor> hello! [17:11:18] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567700> <g_bor> Anyone seen this? [17:11:30] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567701> <g_bor> It's on core-updates: [17:11:51] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567702> <g_bor> starting phase `patch-usr-bin-file' Backtrace: 16 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/4jf0jcpvjn6r2warav5xmxhmddf?") In ice-9/eval.scm: 191:35 15 (_ _) In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 863:16 14 (every1 #<procedure 9b0b40 at /gnu/store/yifqwmdxc4pmd?> ?) In /gnu/store/yifqwmdxc4pmdpm73diq03lqkprnrizn-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: 711:27 13 (_ _) 171:4 12 (patch-usr-bin-file #:native-inputs _ #:inputs _ # _) In srfi/srfi [17:13:38] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567703> <civodul> g_bor: mb[m]1 was just reporting the exact same issue :-) [17:13:45] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567704> <mb[m]1> g_bor: Yes, I'm currently trying to track it down. [17:14:36] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567705> <g_bor> I've also seen it on python-boot0, slightly different message. [17:14:55] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567706> <g_bor> Can this be locale related? [17:15:05] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567707> <g_bor> I have hu_HU.utf8 here. [17:16:04] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567708> * civodul has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [17:17:26] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567709> <g_bor> mb[m]1: can I be of assistance? [17:18:19] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567711> * civodul has joined #guix [17:18:42] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567713> <mb[m]1> g_bor: The failure happens in the build container which uses a fixed locale (C?). [17:19:17] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567714> <g_bor> Ok, then it's not that. [17:19:38] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567715> <g_bor> It just seemd to be some character conversion error... [17:20:08] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567716> <g_bor> Maybe some invalid charaters leaked in somehow... [17:20:15] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567717> <g_bor> Wait a sec... [17:22:51] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567719> <g_bor> It seems, that a lot of packages are broken. [17:23:01] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567720> <g_bor> I laso got that for gettext. [17:26:26] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567721> * xkapastel has joined #guix [17:30:38] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567723> <mb[m]1> Can it be ncurses related? [17:31:12] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567724> <g_bor> Might be... [17:31:21] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567725> <g_bor> did not checked that. [17:32:01] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567726> <mb[m]1> g_bor: Can you see if reverting 667082d59104d4b964dce878f5e8c0f8ad1be958 makes a difference? [17:32:24] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567727> <g_bor> Ok, i will try that [17:36:36] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567731> <g_bor> Do we know about what was the last time it was working? [17:36:58] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567732> <g_bor> We could do a git bisect on core-updates? [17:37:13] <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-12-02#T1567733> <g_bor> Do we have a good commit to start from? [18:40] <g_bor> Ok, now it's building. [18:40] <g_bor> I think this will take a time... [18:41] <g_bor> (guile does take some time :) ) [18:42] <g_bor> I'm trying to help to switch the default icedtea to icedtea-8, and we'd like to that on core-updates... [18:43] <g_bor> I've just written on the mailing list, that it would be nice if we could have substitutes for the core-updates gnu-build-system. [18:43] <g_bor> That could speed things like this up. [18:50] <efraim> mb[m]1: just popped in for a second, core-updates is failing on aarch64 also [18:50] <efraim> civodul too ^ [18:52] <g_bor> Oh, well. [18:52] <g_bor> Do we have a bug report on that already? [18:53] <g_bor> Now I'm trying what mb[m]1 suggested, by reverting the ncurses commit. [18:54] <g_bor> It might be easier to track related information in a bug... [20:52] <g_bor> reverting 667082d59104d4b964dce878f5e8c0f8ad1be958 did not help Does anyone know of a last working commit id? I'm trying to seen if it's working after last merge of master, but if someone knows a later point to start investigating the issue would help. It would also help, if someone with a more powerful computer could help, as building on mine is very slow.