Updating gnulib can solve the problem of compiling diffutils in rebootstrap

https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/rebootstrap/-/commit/1b6e4c4d113857a1ffded7d4633354c1b62b0035

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:55 AM Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> El 20/1/23 a las 16:43, Han Gao escribió:
> > Package: diffutils
> > Version: 1:3.8-3
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: ftbfs
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >    In [1][2], loong64 support is added in gnulib.
> >    In [3], the change already is in debian.
> >    Please update gnulib to add support loong64
> >
> > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-09/msg00030.html
> > [2] 
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=b50c6442e43d79471a31a2a202d3e50c0557446f
> > [3] 
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/gnulib/20230113%2Bstable-1/m4/stack-direction.m4/#L42
>
> This was already reported here:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025140
>
> and it was already fixed in version 3.8-2:
>
>    * Define SIGSEGV_FAULT_STACKPOINTER for loongarch. Closes: #1025140.
>      Temporarily enable autoreconf for the above to work.
>
> Please clarify if there was anything wrong in the above bug and whether
> or not the problem is actually solved.
>
> Also, please clarify if diffutils 3.9 (from upstream) which was
> recently released still needs to be changed. When I try to apply the patch
> in version 3.8-2 to the 3.9 version, the patch still may be applied (it's not 
> rejected),
> does this mean the authors didn't use a gnulib which was recent enough when 
> making the 3.9 release?
>
> Thanks.

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