From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: 23970@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23970: colordiff glitch
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:55:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8hkidkk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRq=qkbapQs94CkscQjQtqPgYbucKbiAQCwH5RGPro51Sbww@mail.gmail.com> (Vincent Legoll's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:17:17 +0200")
Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:
>>> during "guix package -i colordiff" I saw this error being reported:
>>>
>>> chown: invalid user: ‘root.root’
>>> Makefile:24: recipe for target 'install' failed
>>> make: [install] Error 1 (ignored)
>>> phase `install' succeeded after 0.1 seconds
>>>
>>> But it looks like it is harmless (at least from the guix install PoV)
>>
>> It’s indeed harmless and fine.
>
> The problem I saw here, was that a build *error* is ignored, even if
> in this particular case it
> is harmless. Or maybe chown is kind of special-cased when it is done
> inside /gnu/store ?
The error is purposefully ignored here: upstream’s Makefile explicitly
marks it as can be ignored, using a hyphen (info "(make) Errors").
And indeed, it makes a lot of sense to ignore this error with Guix since
this operation is not permitted.
Hope this clarifies things,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-14 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-13 9:10 bug#23970: colordiff glitch Vincent Legoll
2016-07-13 21:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-14 9:17 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-14 12:55 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-15 7:38 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-07-15 8:30 ` Andreas Enge
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