binutils 2.34 on NixOS

[Bernardo Meurer]

Hi Alan,

I now suspect this to be due to some bug fix in binutils, as I believe
those tests
should never have been passing in the first place as Nix builds (and
tests) in
unprivileged sandboxes.

I'm following up on this theory on the thread with Nick.

Thanks,
Bernardo.

On 4/24/20 5:37 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 07:59:33PM -0700, Bernardo Meurer wrote:
>> On 4/23/20 7:49 PM, Bernardo Meurer wrote:
>>> I've been trying to get binutils 2.34 on nixpkgs so that those on
>>> NixOS can benefit from it. The PR[1] has been open since January, for
>>> version 2.33.1, and I've since attempted to upgrade to 2.34 also
>>> without success. NixOS is currently on 2.31.1.
>>>
>>> While binutils 2.34 (and 2.33.1) will build fine the coreutils build
>>> (8.32 or 8.31) fails three tests with the new binutils, namely:
> I doubt very much this is anything to do with upstream binutils, since
> NixOS appears to be another Linux distro.  Out of curiousity I did
> build coreutils-8.32 on Ubuntu-18.04 using a fairly bleeding edge
> binutils, and did not run into any of the failures you are seeing.
>
> Is it possible these problems are due to local patches to binutils?
>