bug#50203: binutils-mesboot0: configure: sed: command not found

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Carl,

Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me> skribis:

> After resolving bug#49985, a new build failure has stumped a community member 
> of mine. When building 
> /gnu/store/8kap9kj0ayhaqd4ay7n9lgpbcwankxrq-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.drv, the 
> build fails and the logs are as follows: 
> https://paste.sr.ht/~dongcarl/7fe559b338dfa9aa3cf3464dbdab8109487c9783#8kap9kj0ayhaqd4ay7n9lgpbcwankxrq-binutils-mesboot0-2.14.log-L5504

Here’s the relevant excerpt for posterity:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
starting phase `configure'
running ./configure --disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-werror 
--build=i386-unknown-linux --host=i386-unknown-linux 
--target=i386-unknown-linux --with-sysroot=/ 
--prefix=/gnu/store/jfa9b78rdniyw7qilsmw3bh02x8x68ly-binutils-mesboot0-2.14
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
./configure: line 456: rm: command not found
./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
configure: error: can not find sources in  or ..
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> We’ve tried the normal suspects: --cores=1, reboots, mounting tmpfs at /tmp, 
> etc.

Heh.  :-)

> What’s also fascinating is that, when I inspect his keep-failed directory: 
> https://nextcloud.carl.homeserver.net/s/ZHmAbz3LwyPwcfL
> We found that:
>
> 1. The $PATH in the environment-variables file contained 
> /gnu/store/2z4y0n547x7d566281isklk9ls2d8c9q-sed-mesboot0-1.18/bin, which in 
> turn contained a working sed:

Could you go to the build directory, run “. ../environment-variables”,
and run the configure script like so:

  sh -x ./configure …

?  That way we’ll see if PATH is getting overridden somewhere.

/gnu/store/2z4y0n547x7d566281isklk9ls2d8c9q-sed-mesboot0-1.18/bin/sed is
a valid i386 static binary AFAICS.

Thanks,
Ludo’.