From b06199e0e0a8325d9dcad1f1cef740ab6af1a380 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:46:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: commencement: diffutils-boot0: Build fix for ARM.

* gnu/packages/commencement.scm (diffutils-boot0): Add
--disable-dependency-tracking.  Fixes arm/aarch64 builds.
---
 gnu/packages/commencement.scm | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
index 511fdd1b68..1e873a4fc5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
@@ -2559,7 +2559,15 @@ (define diffutils-boot0
      `(#:tests? #f                            ; the test suite needs diffutils
        #:guile ,%bootstrap-guile
        #:implicit-inputs? #f
-       ,@(package-arguments diffutils)))))
+       ,@(match (%current-system)
+           ((or "arm-linux" "aarch64-linux")
+            (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments diffutils)
+              ((#:configure-flags flags ''())
+               ;; The generated config.status has some problems due to the
+               ;; bootstrap environment.  Disable dependency tracking to work
+               ;; around it.
+               `(cons "--disable-dependency-tracking" ,flags))))
+           (_ '()))))))
 
 (define findutils-boot0
   (package