On 2015-04-17 11:28, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > Source: make-dfsg > Version: 4.0-8.1 > > When building with binutils 2.25-6, the version currently in unstable, > it fails to build. The output is: > > features/archives ....................................... FAILED (3/10 passed) > > It's clear what's happening here. This entry in the changelog for > binutils (2.25-6) explains it: > > * Configure with --enable-deterministic-archives. Closes: #774429. > > Files are added to archives with a zero timestamp so make then adds > them again, unexpectedly. > > However, I'm not sure how you'll want to fix this. Weaken the test > somehow?
I have just noted that ar has the 'U' option to disable deterministic archives. This would allow to still test this part of make. Unfortunately ar doesn't take arguments, but rather a list of modifiers which need to be in the same argument, so we can't use an alias to force this. We could also have done that using a shell function, but POSIX shells do not provide a way to export shell functions. We can still do it by using a wrapper called ar and changing PATH to point first to the directory containing the wrapper. That's a bit more ugly though. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
