Bug 854417

Summary:	app-editors/xemacs-21.5.34-r9 installs files with broken symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	XEmacs team <xemacs>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build.log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2022-06-26 16:45:58 UTC

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: app-editors/xemacs-21.5.34-r9 installs files with broken symlink.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: lto_tinderbox)

NOTE:
This machine uses lto with CFLAGS=-flto -Werror=odr -Werror=lto-type-mismatch -Werror=strict-aliasing

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2022-06-26 16:46:01 UTC

Created attachment 787793 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2022-06-27 21:40:43 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a5dbc32a6e327775a55eba8583262d7bb761ec3a

commit a5dbc32a6e327775a55eba8583262d7bb761ec3a
Author:     Mats Lidell <matsl@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-06-27 21:33:34 +0000
Commit:     Mats Lidell <matsl@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-06-27 21:39:26 +0000

    app-editors/xemacs: No lock on finder-inf creation
    
    Patch from upstream to not use a lock file when creating finder-inf.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/854417
    Signed-off-by: Mats Lidell <matsl@gentoo.org>

 .../xemacs-21.5.34-no-lock-on-finder-inf.patch     | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 app-editors/xemacs/xemacs-21.5.34-r9.ebuild        |  1 +
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+)

Comment 3 Mats Lidell gentoo-dev

2022-06-27 21:44:37 UTC

Trying a proposal and patch from upstream to not use a lock file when creating finder -inf which should avoid getting a symlink to the lockfile.