Re: 02/02: gnu: cross-base: Make the libc static-bash bug more apparent.

[Mark H Weaver]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> commit 12b0dbd472d1020565b2d1e3f4c72fca635db0a8
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
> Date:   Wed Mar 25 21:26:31 2015 +0100
>
>     gnu: cross-base: Make the libc static-bash bug more apparent.
>     
>     The 'static-bash' input of cross libcs has always been compiled
>     natively.  This patch makes the issue more visible.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/cross-base.scm (cross-libc): Add 'inputs' field, and
>       add (package-inputs glibc) to 'native-inputs'.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/cross-base.scm |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm b/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm
> index 5a67d4b..dbcc5bc 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/cross-base.scm
> @@ -298,8 +298,13 @@ XBINUTILS and the cross tool chain."
>      ;; "linux-headers" input to point to the right thing.
>      (propagated-inputs `(("linux-headers" ,xlinux-headers)))
>  
> +    ;; FIXME: 'static-bash' should really be an input, not a native input, 
> but
> +    ;; to do that will require building an intermediate cross libc.
> +    (inputs '())
> +
>      (native-inputs `(("cross-gcc" ,xgcc)
>                       ("cross-binutils" ,xbinutils)
> +                     ,@(package-inputs glibc)     ;FIXME: static-bash
>                       ,@(package-native-inputs glibc)))))
>  
>

This seems to have broken cross-compilation.  See:

  http://hydra.gnu.org/eval/103397#tabs-now-fail

      Mark