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Subject: Re: Test suite failures building 0.10.0 on CentOS7
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:00:13 +0200
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"Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org> skribis:

> Thanks for the reminder about https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/ht=
ml_node/Running-the-Test-Suite.html    I note there too that I should be em=
ailing bug-guix@gnu.org instead of guix-devel.  I've cc:ed it this time.  W=
hat is the best going forward?

Yeah, using bug-guix@gnu.org for bug reports is the best way.

> I am building the release from git since I want to ./configure with a
> non-standard --localstatedir of /gnu/var

This can also be done when building from the tarball: just run

  tar xf guix-0.10.0.tar.gz
  cd guix-0.10.0
  ./configure --localstatedir=3D/gnu/var
  =E2=80=A6

> In any case I have reduced the issues by adding to my install mantra:
>
> 	export ACLOCAL_PATH=3D/usr/share/aclocal # as per https://www.gnu.org/so=
ftware/guix/manual/guix.html#Building-from-Git

Another reason for using the release tarball: there=E2=80=99d be no such is=
sues!
:-)

> In guix/cve.scm:
>   76: 2 [call-with-cve-port # 518400 ...]
> In guix/http-client.scm:
>  300: 1 [http-fetch/cached # # 518400 ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [string-append #f "/http/" "Fjb931UJRoTPOjHq6hc1oawK9bCopdhOoX9gr=
KLx71Q=3D"]
>
> ERROR: In procedure string-append:
> ERROR: In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f'

This is a harmless failure: it indicates that neither the HOME nor the
XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variables are defined in the build
environment.  Could you define one of these (they can point any writable
directory) and run =E2=80=98make recheck=E2=80=99?

Surely we should handle this situation better.  I guess
=E2=80=98cache-directory=E2=80=99 in (guix utils) should just error out in =
such a case,
with a clear error message.  Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.