From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#31647: [core-updates] gtkglext fails in a weird way Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 22:30:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7siqk5m.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> References: <87d0xeqq6l.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNlHr-0002S6-EP for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 16:32:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNlHn-00009R-FQ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 16:32:07 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:46462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNlHn-000096-4U for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 16:32:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNlHm-0000Fy-6n for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 16:32:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87d0xeqq6l.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 31647@debbugs.gnu.org > on “core-updates” the “gtkglext” package fails with an odd error > message: […] It seems that this is not limited to “gtkglext”. This behaviour seems to affect any package using “invoke” where the invoked command fails. Should the build system catch the exception and make sure that it gets to print “build phase `foo' failed”? -- Ricardo