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| author | Ben Wolsieffer <benwolsieffer@gmail.com> | 2022-07-04 13:08:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Ben Wolsieffer <benwolsieffer@gmail.com> | 2022-07-05 19:53:50 -0400 |
| commit | 03d159b493e7d3d08bd06d2a816f5c68567f2c20 (patch) | |
| tree | fd56568edcdfc1b43dbf1205d5943864ff97c466 /pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils | |
| parent | 0c564ffe7876338179c32ff9a6b63c36eb0c6a25 (diff) | |
coreutils: enable /proc/uptime support when cross-compiling
/proc/uptime support can't be detected automatically when cross-compiling, so it is disabled by default. This causes extremely large uptime values (e.g. 19167 days) on systems without RTCs because the boot time is set to the epoch.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix index f6d2591716e17..da6df52214109 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/default.nix @@ -118,7 +118,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { # TODO(19b98110126fde7cbb1127af7e3fe1568eacad3d): Needed for fstatfs() I # don't know why it is not properly detected cross building with glibc. "fu_cv_sys_stat_statfs2_bsize=yes" - ]; + ] + # /proc/uptime is available on Linux and produces accurate results even if + # the boot time is set to the epoch because the system has no RTC. We + # explicitly enable it for cases where it can't be detected automatically, + # such as when cross-compiling. + ++ optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux "gl_cv_have_proc_uptime=yes"; # The tests are known broken on Cygwin # (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/19025), |