Re: ☠ Buildbot (Sourceware): glibc-snapshots-trunk - failed compile (failure) (master)

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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> > diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> > index 2f2d12c335..1047585695 100644
> > --- a/INSTALL
> > +++ b/INSTALL
> > @@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ allows removing the whole build directory in case
> > an error occurs, which
> >  is the safest way to get a fresh start and should always be done.
> > 
> >     From your object directory, run the shell script ‘configure’ located
> > -at the top level of the source tree.  In the scenario above, you’d type
> > 
> >                             ^
> > +at the top level of the source tree.  In the scenario above, you'd type
> > 
> >                             ^
> > 
> 
> I had to look 6 times till I saw the difference between the you’d and
> you'd :)
> 
> Does anybody know what (which package upgrade) exactly caused this? And
> what is "correct" in this case?

In general that's texinfo, and the equivalent change was introduced elsewhere in 
(from memory) 2.38. 

commit 84e93afc734a3c30e35ed2d21466a44259ac577e
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date:   Thu Jun 29 09:20:41 2023 -0700
    Switch to UTF-8 for INSTALL
    This makes it slightly easier to read, and these days
    everybody can read UTF-8.

Now for what changed precisely in Fedora 40 you'll have to ask someone else...


> Maybe we should just spell it out?
> "In the scenario above, you would type..."
> 
> Currently the snapshots are build using fedora-latest, which indeed
> just switched to Fedora 40. We could use a distro that updates less
> frequently, like debian-stable, if we don't want to be bothered by
> these faster moving distros.

Millenial youngsters and their fancy unicode... :o)

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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer 
(council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge

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