Re: 01/01: gnu: glibc/linux: Fix runtime crashes on i686 systems.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Mark,

> address@hidden (Ricardo Wurmus) writes:
>
>> rekado pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit b2fd8f63679aa4f244c36fdca62f23c00b8eded9
>> Author: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Wed Apr 26 13:03:48 2017 +0200
>>
>>     gnu: glibc/linux: Fix runtime crashes on i686 systems.
>>
>>     * gnu/packages/patches/glibc-memchr-overflow-i686.patch: New file.
>>     * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
>>     * gnu/packages/commencement.scm 
>> (glibc-final-with-bootstrap-bash)[native-inputs]:
>>     Add the patch conditionally for i686 systems.
>>     * gnu/packages/base.scm (glibc/linux)[native-inputs]: Add the patch
>>     conditionally for i686 systems.
>>     [arguments]: Apply the patch conditionally on i686 systems.
>
> Thanks very much for this.  I noticed a minor issue with this patch: […]

Thanks for your comments.  You’re right.

I’ve also noticed that something’s wrong with this patch, even though it
appeared to work fine when cross-building glibc on my x86_64 machine.

I’ll fix these issues shortly.

--
Ricardo

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