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-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml11
-rw-r--r--chapter06/coreutils.xml7
-rw-r--r--chapter06/findutils.xml7
-rw-r--r--chapter06/gettext.xml9
-rw-r--r--general.ent6
5 files changed, 37 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 0d4b3a472..a455cda93 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@
appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2017-02-25</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Comment out the test-lock test in coreutils,
+ findutils, gettext because on some machines it now loops
+ forever.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2017-02-19</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
index 00874e4fa..fdd097998 100644
--- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@
without this patch.</para>
</note>
+ <!-- this has been fixed in upstream gnulib, when a new version of
+ coreutils is released, please check #4055 to see if the change has been
+ picked up in this package -->
+ <para>Suppress a test which on some machines can loop forever.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/test.lock/s/^/#/' gnulib-tests/gnulib.mk</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \
diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml
index 8eb46d515..a13fec4eb 100644
--- a/chapter06/findutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Findutils</title>
+ <!-- this has been fixed in upstream gnulib, when a new version of
+ findutils is released, please check #4055 to see if the change has been
+ picked up in this package -->
+ <para>Suppress a test which on some machines can loop forever.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/test-lock..EXEEXT.//' gettext-tools/gnulib-tests/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter06/gettext.xml b/chapter06/gettext.xml
index dc198b748..ef8cd2633 100644
--- a/chapter06/gettext.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gettext.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Gettext</title>
+ <!-- this has been fixed in upstream gnulib, when a new version of
+ gettext is released, please check #4055 to see if the change has been
+ picked up in this package -->
+ <para>Suppress two invocations of test-lock which on some machines
+ can loop forever.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/^TESTS =/d' gettext-runtime/tests/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
+sed -i 's/test-lock..EXEEXT.//' gettext-tools/gnulib-tests/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index b06bf0b53..c3562038f 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20170219">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20170225">
<!ENTITY short-version "svn"> <!-- Used below in &blfs-book;
Change to x.y for release but not -rc releases -->
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development" or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
-<!ENTITY versiond "20170219-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond "20170225-systemd">
<!ENTITY short-versiond "systemd">
<!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "February 19, 2017">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "February 25, 2017">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2017"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
<!ENTITY milestone "8.0">