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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-09-28 22:32:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-09-28 22:44:38 +0200 |
| commit | 789f09a073a7239aee2e551d52b5b5ea9f41bb90 (patch) | |
| tree | 22cac442d56dafa055f2049e5d6278dbfa46ab8f /gnu/packages | |
| parent | 9e01589469abd89e035450d29026f0e14add6801 (diff) | |
gnu: binutils: Work around Bash 4.2 bug.
Fixes a 'binutils-cross-boot0' build failure on mips64el.
Reported at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg01083.html>.
* gnu/packages/patches/binutils-mips-bash-bug.patch: New file.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (binutils)[source]: Use it.
* gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/base.scm | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/patches/binutils-mips-bash-bug.patch | 22 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index cab5793a24..0ea6114830 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -386,7 +386,8 @@ change. GNU make offers many powerful extensions over the standard utility.") (base32 "125clslv17xh1sab74343fg6v31msavpmaa1c1394zsqa773g5rn")) (patches (search-patches "binutils-ld-new-dtags.patch" - "binutils-loongson-workaround.patch")))) + "binutils-loongson-workaround.patch" + "binutils-mips-bash-bug.patch")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) ;; TODO: Add dependency on zlib + those for Gold. diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/binutils-mips-bash-bug.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/binutils-mips-bash-bug.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..08d3a79749 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/binutils-mips-bash-bug.patch @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Bash 4.2.0(1)-release, which we use during bootstrap, does not yield the +"x" case in: + + case x"$EMULATION_NAME" in x) ;; *) ;; esac + +when 'EMULATION_NAME' is undefined. Bash 4.3.30(1)-release doesn't have this +problem. Work around it. + +This Bash bug was fixed +in <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-007>. + +--- a/ld/emulparams/elf32bmipn32-defs.sh ++++ b/ld/emulparams/elf32bmipn32-defs.sh +@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LITTLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT="elf32-littlemips" + TEMPLATE_NAME=elf32 + EXTRA_EM_FILE=mipself + +-case x"$EMULATION_NAME" in ++case "x$EMULATION_NAME" in + xelf32*n32*) ELFSIZE=32 ;; + xelf64*) ELFSIZE=64 ;; + x) ;; |