strange koji build failures...?

[Jim Meyering]

"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> Phew, not just me then!
>
> Failed build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=645188
> Exactly the same successful scratch build:
>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=645144
>
> and the error message is:
>
> cp -pf /builddir/build/BUILD/ocaml-3.10.2/stdlib/libcamlrun.a stdlib/libcamlrun.a
> cp:
> preserving times for `stdlib/libcamlrun.a'
> : No such file or directory
> Failure:
>   Error during command `cp -pf /builddir/build/BUILD/ocaml-3.10.2/stdlib/libcamlrun.a stdlib/libcamlrun.a'.
> Exit code 1.

Hi Rich,

Thanks for the details.
This looks like the same problem reported in this thread:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13684

Eric Blake fixed that with this change to gnulib's utimens.c:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=93f08406537

Considering that this has already affected two distributions,
I'm tempted to make a coreutils-6.13 release.  We'll see.