bug#29537: Core updates broken

[Gábor Boskovits]

I'd go the GUIX_GLIBC_VERSION way.

That one seems the clearest, at least to me...

2017-12-03 19:43 GMT+01:00 Marius Bakke <address@hidden>:

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> It seems, that we have a breakage in current core-updates. m4, gettext, and
>>> at least a few other packages fail to build.
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> The problem is that the glibc version string is used a couple of places
>> to determine where locales are found.
>>
>> The attached patch fixes it, though I'm not sure if it's the best
>> approach.  Thoughts?
>
> Thank you.
>
> I find it a little ugly to replace the exact version string with only
> the major+minor version substring.  Why can’t we use the full version
> string?

I think it's because "glibc-versioned-locpath.patch" uses the libc
VERSION constant.

Perhaps we could substitute glibcs "version.h", but that might break
other things.  Or introduce a different variable, say
GUIX_GLIBC_VERSION, and use that.  WDYT?