diffutils: disable tests on aarch64 musl #258689
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Description of changes
The tests have never worked on aarch64 musl, so this restores the previous behaviour on that platform of building successfully even though the tests don't pass.
Since the tests work on x86_64 musl, and not aarch64 musl, my best guess having not looked too closely is that the difference is because aarch64 is stuck on ancient bootstrap tools for musl that cause all sorts of problems. Hopefully we can revert this once the bootstrap tools are updated. Having diffutils building is a prerequisite to doing that.
Things done
sandbox = true
set innix.conf
? (See Nix manual)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD"
. Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage./result/bin/
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