bug#28673: [PATCH 5/6] gnu: libunwind: Merge update and test changes.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Dave,

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/patches/libunwind-known_test_failure_to_XFAIL_TESTS.patch:
>> New file.
>> * gnu/packages/patches/libunwind-ppc_lib64.patch: New file.
>> * gnu/packages/libunwind.scm (libunwind)[source]: Use them.
>> (libunwind)(native-inputs): Add autotools.
>> (libunwind)(arguments): Enable tests; run autoreconf.
>> * gnu/local.mk: Update dependencies.
>
> [...]
>
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/libunwind-known_test_failure_to_XFAIL_TESTS.patch
>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>> +--- libunwind-1.2.1/tests/Makefile.am~      1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 
>> +0100
>> ++++ libunwind-1.2.1/tests/Makefile.am       2017-09-06 13:32:52.331888031 
>> +0100
>> +@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
>> + XFAIL_TESTS =
>> + 
>> + if !ARCH_IA64
>> +-XFAIL_TESTS += Gtest-dyn1 Ltest-dyn1
>> ++XFAIL_TESTS += Gtest-dyn1 Ltest-dyn1 test-ptrace
>> + endif
>> + 
>> + # Use if arch defines but does not support PTRACE_SINGLESTEP
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/libunwind-ppc_lib64.patch 
>> b/gnu/packages/patches/libunwind-ppc_lib64.patch
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000..9ab0108ae
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/libunwind-ppc_lib64.patch
>> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
>> +Index: pkg-libunwind/configure.ac
>> +===================================================================
>> +--- pkg-libunwind.orig/configure.ac 2014-05-07 15:13:28.247711669 +0900
>> ++++ pkg-libunwind/configure.ac      2014-05-07 15:14:25.924958386 +0900
>> +@@ -164,12 +164,6 @@
>> + AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_DWARF, [test x$use_dwarf = xyes])
>> + AC_MSG_RESULT([$use_dwarf])
>> + 
>> +-if test x$target_arch = xppc64; then
>> +-        libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib64'
>> +-        AC_MSG_NOTICE([PowerPC64 detected, lib will be installed 
>> ${libdir}]);
>> +-        AC_SUBST([libdir])
>> +-fi
>
> Could you avoid this patch and instead use ‘substitute*’ on ‘configure’
> and ‘tests/Makefile.in’ such that we don’t need the extra dependency on
> the autotools?
>
> Please make sure to add a comment explaining why we’re doing this (the
> Makefile.am bit is not obvious to me.)

Since these libunwind changes do not seem to relate to the rest of this
PAPI series (which has been applied), I’m closing it now.  Feel free to
resubmit separately if you think it’s still relevant!

Thanks,
Ludo’.