Re: Test failure when building libarchive-3.1.2

[Jan Synáček]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jan Synáček <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Reference files will be read from:
>> /tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/tar/test
>> Running tests on:
>> "/tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/./bsdtar"
>> Exercising: bsdtar 3.1.2 - libarchive 3.1.2
>
> [...]
>
>>  17: test_option_b                                     FAIL
>
> Ricardo reported the same issue a while back:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-03/msg00182.html
>
> What platform is this on, i686?
>
> It would be nice to see if this systematically fails.  If it is
> non-deterministic, we should build it with --keep-failed until it fails
> (removing successful builds with ‘guix gc -d’), collect useful info from
> the build tree, and debug.
>
> (You can also work around it by enabling substitutes since Hydra had no
> problems building it.)
>
> Ludo’.

In my case the build fails always. I'm running guix on Fedora 23, x86_64.

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Jan Synáček