strace 5.13 in core-updates-frozen appears to build fine but fails its "readlinkat" test for me on AArch64 (real hardware; a ROCK64). This is the only test that fails.
>From the build directory, strace-5.13/tests/readlinkat.dir/exp contains readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "\x74\x65\x73\x74\x2e\x72\x65\x61\x64\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x61\x74\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b", 0xfffff7e2cfea, 22) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "\x74\x65\x73\x74\x2e\x72\x65\x61\x64\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x61\x74\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b", "\x74\x65\x73\x74\x2e\x72\x65\x61\x64\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x61\x74\x2e\x74\x61\x72\x67\x65\x74", 22) = 22 +++ exited with 0 +++ but strace-5.13/tests/readlinkat.dir/out shows readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "\x2f\x70\x72\x6f\x63\x2f\x73\x65\x6c\x66\x2f\x65\x78\x65", "\x2f\x74\x6d\x70\x2f\x67\x75\x69\x78\x2d\x62\x75\x69\x6c\x64\x2d\x73\x74\x72\x61\x63\x65\x2d\x35\x2e\x31\x33\x2e\x64\x72\x76\x2d"..., 4096) = 62 readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "\x74\x65\x73\x74\x2e\x72\x65\x61\x64\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x61\x74\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b", 0xfffff7e2cfea, 22) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "\x74\x65\x73\x74\x2e\x72\x65\x61\x64\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x61\x74\x2e\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b", "\x74\x65\x73\x74\x2e\x72\x65\x61\x64\x6c\x69\x6e\x6b\x61\x74\x2e\x74\x61\x72\x67\x65\x74", 22) = 22 +++ exited with 0 +++ The only difference is an additional line at the start of the generated output. I see this in the strace package definition (gnu/packages/linux.scm:2256): ;; XXX: This test fails because an extra readlink call is made ;; by the glibc when using the ld.so cache. (("readlink.gen.test[^:]") " ") Perhaps the same is true for readlinkat on AArch64? -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net