bug#48963: "guix build guix" halts after exhausting memory

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le Sun, 20 Jun 2021 23:00:53 +0200,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :

> Hi!
> 
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
> 
> > No, the _test_ failure is consistent. The build itself now always
> > completes, which is much better that before.  
> 
> Ah, that’s great!  I can work on a variant of this patch that shows
> correct completion numbers.
> 
> Could you share ‘tests/inferiors.log’ if that’s the one that’s
> failing? Is it also failing for you on x86_64?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Here is the content of `tests/inferiors.log`. The failure is the same
on armhf and x86_64:

Backtrace:
           2 (primitive-load-path "tests/inferior.scm")
In ice-9/eval.scm:
   626:19  1 (_ #<directory (test-inferior) 7ffff5d7ad20>)
In unknown file:
           0 (dirname #f)

ERROR: In procedure dirname:
In procedure scm_to_utf8_stringn: Wrong type argument in position 1
(expecting string): #f