I changed the cflags in makepkg.conf and have been rebuilding packages and have a problem building coreutils. The following is an excerpt from the check log with the appropriate line numbers. 1501 ================================ 1502 1503 Skipping test: no chinese GB18030 locale is installed 1504 1505 FAIL: test-parse-datetime (exit: 134) 1506 ================================= 1507 1508 test-parse-datetime.c:142: assertion failed 1509 1510 SKIP: test-setlocale1.sh (exit: 77) 1511 =================================== 1512 1513 Skipping test: no locale for testing is installed 1514 My current settings in makepkg.conf are: CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu" MAKEFLAGS="-j3" I run with testing repos enabled so I don't cherrypick anything, I simply rebuild my packages with the above configuration, and in 90% of the cases I manage to figure out my problems and fix them. I always assume it's something I've done my self first, then look elsewhere later. The way I get my PKGBUILDS etc is [ svn checkout --depth-empty ] then [ svn update [ pkgname ] ] then build the trunk version. If that doesn't work I try the testing repos, which I assume is the same as trunk but try it anyway. After that I search for bugs relating to the package, this time coreutils and the only thing I could find was related to ISO-8601 [ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-10/msg00096.html ] but wasn't sure it was directly related. This from the end of the check: 1 of 269 tests failed (25 tests were not run) See gnulib-tests/test-suite.log Please report to bug-coreutils@gnu.org ====================================== make[6]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[5]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[4]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[3]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[2]: *** [check] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14' make: *** [check] Error 2 [1m38;5;1m==> ERROR:A failure occurred in check() [1m Aborting... This from test-parse-datetime.log FAIL: test-parse-datetime (exit: 134) ===================================== test-parse-datetime.c:142: assertion failed This from test-parse-datetime.c 136 /* ISO 8601 extended date and time of day representation, 137 'T' separator, local time zone */ 135 p = "2011-05-01T11:55:18"; 137 expected.tv_sec = 1304250918 - gmtoff; 138 expected.tv_nsec = 0; 139 ASSERT (parse_datetime (&result, p, 0)); 140 LOG (p, expected, result); 141 ASSERT (expected.tv_sec == result.tv_sec 142 && expected.tv_nsec == result.tv_nsec); After checking all these I cloned the git repo for coreutils, applied the patch files, bootstraped the build which clones the gnulib repo and builds it, then ran [ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/coreutils \ --enable-install-program=su \ --enable-no-install-program=groups,hostname,kill,uptime \ --enable-pam CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu" ] which duplicates the PKGBUILD and my makepkg.conf, then make -j3, then [ make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check ] and all the tests passed. I did this twice just to make sure I'd done it the same both times and achieved the same results I previously built this package as below with no problems with the following makepkg.conf [ CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -m64 -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu" ] [myra@gandalf ~]:pacq coreutils Name : coreutils Version : 8.14-1 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils Licenses : GPL3 Groups : base Provides : None Depends On : glibc shadow pam acl gmp libcap Optional Deps : None Required By : ca-certificates dbus-core filesystem hwdetect initscripts linux linux-pf mkinitcpio mlocate netcfg perl pkgstats rpmextract sysvinit Conflicts With : None Replaces : mktemp Installed Size : 13860.00 KiB Packager : Myra Nelson <myra.nelson@hughes.net> Architecture : x86_64 Build Date : Sat 15 Oct 2011 02:07:03 AM CDT Install Date : Sat 15 Oct 2011 02:08:51 AM CDT Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package Install Script : Yes Description : The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system Apparently something changed between know and then as my only changes were in my makepkg.conf file and I know use localepurge to remove locales that I don't use. My assumption in not having the extra locales on my machine casued the failure, but thought I would put this out there anyway to make sure. Thanks for your time and assistance. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!