branch core-updates updated: gnu: coreutils-boot0: Add comment about arm* configure-flags.

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     new 42c1a83a98 gnu: coreutils-boot0: Add comment about arm* 
configure-flags.
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commit 42c1a83a98787ec92afff82df5c140a43cea30f0
Author: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
AuthorDate: Sun Feb 12 21:11:02 2023 +0200

    gnu: coreutils-boot0: Add comment about arm* configure-flags.
    
    * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (coreutils-boot0)[arguments]: Add a full
    comment around the configure-flags used when building for arm
    architectures.
---
 gnu/packages/commencement.scm | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
index 149d34b24c..bc06dc8120 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
@@ -1969,13 +1969,15 @@ exec " gcc "/bin/" program
     (arguments
      `(#:tests? #f
        #:implicit-inputs? #f
+       ;; The %bootstrap-glibc for aarch64 and armhf doesn't have
+       ;; $output/include/linux/prctl.h which causes some binaries
+       ;; to fail to build with coreutils-9.0+.
        ,@(if (target-arm?)
-           ;; Some binaries fail to build.
            `(#:configure-flags '(,(string-append
                                     "--enable-no-install-program="
-                                    ;; the defaults
+                                    ;; the defaults to not install.
                                     "arch,coreutils,hostname"
-                                    ;; fails on aarch64
+                                    ;; fails due to missing headers.
                                     ",timeout,sort")))
            '())
        #:guile ,%bootstrap-guile