Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.tar.xz

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Pádraig Brady writes:

Hello Pádraig,

> We plan to release coreutils-8.32 in the coming week
> so any testing you can do on various different systems between now and then
> would be most welcome.

It builds fine, and reproducibly on Guix System (current master;
ba8992d28b1616d05b7cb04ef032944c5d19cd5a); build log attached.

Guix has been disabling tests/misc/env-S.pl

    ;; This test hits the 127 character shebang limit in the build
    ;; environment due to the way "env -S" splits arguments into
    ;; shebangs.  Note that "env-S-script.sh" works around this
    ;; specific issue, but "env-S.pl" is not adjusted for build
    ;; environments with long prefixes (/tmp/guix-build-...).
    (substitute* "Makefile"
      (("^.*tests/misc/env-S.pl.*$") ""))

so I guess this is expected, and that hasn't changed.

Would you be willing to also provide a GZIP compressed version of future
sed releases too? (patch attached).

Since coreutils-8.14 (2011), only XZ tarball releases were provided.
This is not a problem but still unfortunate; it makes 8.13 (2011)
currently the latest version that we can use to build first in our
ongoing efforts to create a full source bootstrap of the GNU (Guix)
System. Only a few GNU packages have this new bootstrap "problem";
I am happy that GNU Sed re-started issuing gzip releases recently
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00016.html).

For some background see this blog post
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/, the
next reduction will remove programs like sed from the bootstrap seed.
XZ can only be built after we have a fairly recent GCC and glibc.

Greetings,
janneke

>From 21645fc7d6feead2a1712f764b21c4c5f699720a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 06:56:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: once again distribute .tar.gz files

* configure.ac: Reenable distribution of gzip-compressed tarballs, in
line with the request to do so for sed, from Jan Nieuwenhuizen in
https://lists.gnu.org/r/sed-devel/2020-01/msg00013.html
* NEWS (Release): Mention this.
---
 NEWS         | 4 ++++
 configure.ac | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 841f3f854..d280ce553 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-
   "ppc-cmm-fs", and "z3fold" file systems.
   stat -f -c%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
 
+** Release
+
+  distribute gzip-compressed tarballs once again
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.31 (2019-03-10) [stable]
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e123e981a..9e87f4e48 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/ls.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.2 no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.2 dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests
                   subdir-objects])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default.
 
-- 
2.24.0

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