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authorThiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com>2021-09-09 11:41:14 -0300
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2021-11-11 10:31:30 -0500
commitf234f5b0e120ea8cfa850440a428c3bc211b329b (patch)
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parent4b4e35a771cbcc7b72d28e9a4c6a0d6de2000175 (diff)
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gnu: diffutils: Fix signal processing.
diffutils has a race condition in its signal processing code which is easy to trigger on powerpc64le-linux. More often than not, it causes the ‘colors’ test to fail and therefore the build of the package fails as well. Add the patch proposed in Debian bug 922552 which fixes the problem. * gnu/packages/patches/diffutils-fix-signal-processing.patch: New file. * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it. * gnu/packages/base.scm (diffutils)[source]: Use it. Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index ebbb093eac..9395c7e056 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ differences.")
(sha256
(base32
"09isrg0isjinv8c535nxsi1s86wfdfzml80dbw41dj9x3hiad9xk"))
- (patches (search-patches "coreutils-gnulib-tests.patch"))))
+ (patches (search-patches "coreutils-gnulib-tests.patch"
+ "diffutils-fix-signal-processing.patch"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(native-inputs (list perl))
(synopsis "Comparing and merging files")