[email protected] writes: > Unfortunately, all three of them fail on MIPS, for the same reason that > sudo and gawk currently need workarounds: all of these packages were > bootstrapped with a version of 'libtool' that requires /usr/bin/file on > MIPS. > > Given that this problem is becoming increasingly common, I think we > should add 'file' as an implicit native-input for the gnu-build-system > in core-updates, and also add a new phase to %standard-phases that > substitutes /usr/bin/file in the usual places with a path that works in > the build environment. > > What do you think?
I had wanted to do this a while back for pedenatic reasons. The reason at the time for not doing it was that "it doesn't create a real problem in most cases". Causing failed builds on MIPS seems to me to be enough of a real problem to justify the change. -- Eric Bavier
