Re: dpkg test suite fails on Alpine Linux starting with 1.21.10
On Mon, 2022-12-05 at 20:43:45 +0100, Sören Tempel wrote:
> alpine:latest is the latest stable release. I encountered this on
> alpine:edge, which is our rolling release development version (basically
> Debian Sid). It is interesting that it doesn't seem to fail in
> alpine:latest though. However, I can reproduce it in a fresh alpine:edge
> Docker image using the following commands:
>
> $ docker run -it alpine:edge
> / # cat /etc/alpine-release
> 3.17_alpha20221110
> / # apk add build-base ncurses-dev xz coreutils gzip bzip2-dev linux-headers perl zlib-dev po4a tar libmd-dev
> / # wget https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.21.11.tar.xz
> / # tar -xvf dpkg_1.21.11.tar.xz
> / # cd dpkg-1.21.11
> / # ./configure --disable-nls
> / # make -j$(nproc)
> / # make -C scripts/ check
>
> I haven't tried reproducing the failure on alpine:latest yet so please
> let me know if you are also not able to reproduce the hang on alpine:edge.
Ah, sorry, can certainly reproduce now. This smells like a problem with
GNU make 4.4, AFAIR that release contains several behavior breaking
changes. Will see what's going on and prep a fix for 1.21.12.
Thanks,
Guillem
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