Re: 01/02: gnu: gnupg: Update to 2.1.17.

[Mark H Weaver]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 02:17:23AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>> >     gnu: gnupg: Update to 2.1.17.
>>> >     
>>> >     * gnu/packages/gnupg.scm (gnupg): Update to 2.1.17.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, this new version of gnupg consistently fails its test
>>> suite on every system we support except for x86_64:
>>
>>> The error is always the same:
>>> 
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> make  check-local
>>> make[3]: Entering directory 
>>> '/tmp/nix-build-gnupg-2.1.17.drv-0/gnupg-2.1.17/tests/gpgscm'
>>> EXEEXT= GPGSCM_PATH=. \
>>>     ./gpgscm ./t-child.scm
>>> make[3]: *** [Makefile:838: check-local] Segmentation fault
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>> 
>>> If you can't find a fix quickly, please revert this commit, because
>>> several very important packages depend on it.
>>
>> Upstream discussion:
>>
>> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2016-December/032364.html
>
> Here is the patch from that thread:
>
> https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6e96cdd41a0e55b672309431062f37c4a4a9f485
>
> It doesn't look like they will do a new release with this fix, so I
> pushed the patch as 059b3aa9c335041d947cf2b765ab3dab811cfdc5. It passes
> with '--system=i686-linux' on my machine.

This also fixed the builds on armhf and mips64el.  Thank you!

      Mark