Re: 'guix-build' returns 'unknown package', Bison's testsuite fails

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

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Am Samstag, 26. Januar 2013 schrieb Nikita Karetnikov:
> I'm trying to package 'gobject-introspection', but I'm facing some
> problems:
>   1. 'guix-build' doesn't work for new packages; it returns
>      "<package>: unknown package."  I'm using the '-e' option as a
>      workaround, but it's not very convenient.
> 
>      For instance, if I copy the recipe for 'sed' to 'newsed.scm', then
>      replace 'sed' with 'newsed' in that file, and try to build it via
>      'guix-build newsed', it will return the mentioned error message.
>      However, it will work if I use the '-e' option.  Also, I won't get
>      any errors if I try to import it in the REPL.
> 
>   2. Bison's testsuite fails and I'm not able to fix it.  So I'd like to
>      disable it because I want to test 'gobject-introspection'.  Why
>      doesn't '(arguments `(#:tests? #f))' disable the testsuite?
> 
> These issues may seem unrelated, but there is a similarity: My changes
> have no effect.  I've just replaced 'gnu/packages/bison.scm' with an
> empty file, but 'guix-build bison' doesn't raise any errors.  Is it
> related?

That has happened to me before when I forgot to execute "make install" or 
to add a file to Makefile.am.

Also, after deleting a file, it is not deleted from $PREFIX/share/...; in 
this way, it has happened to me that I had two versions of a package, one 
from a deleted/renamed file, one from the file with the new name; and the 
wrong one was built...

Andreas

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