Re: proot-static build failures (master and core-updates)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com> skribis:

> We now have a build attempt on Cuirass:
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/982993/details
>
> proot-static is required for building relocatable packages.

Yup, so that’s a problem.

> That is on core-updates, but I see the same issue building from source
> on master, as well as running manually outside of the proot. The check
> fails on timeout, but test-25069c12 and test-25069c13 are trivial and
> I can see no reason why these test processes do not terminate
> immediately rather than execve continually.

Josselin mentioned on IRC that they’d reported it upstream:

  https://github.com/proot-me/proot/issues/352

Do these tests reveal a real issue, or should we just skip them until a
fix lands upstream?

Ludo’.