bug#29358: guile2.0-guix times out

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Since the Guix snapshot update to 0.13.0-9.ff23b47, "guile2.0-guix"
>> fails to build due to a test timeout:
>>
>> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/guile2.0-guix-0.13.0-9.ff23b47.x86_64-linux
>
> I bisected this down to this commit:
>
> commit a2985bb101faac9f085176e0329488b91b81dfb5
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date:   Thu Nov 9 23:29:39 2017 +0100
>
>     ui: Provide hints for unbound-variable errors.
>     
>     * guix/ui.scm (known-variable-definition): New procedure.
>     (report-load-error): Handle 'unbound-variable'.
>
> I also noticed that when compiling (guix ui), I get this warning:
>
> warning: unknown warning type `macro-use-before-definition'
>
> ...which is helpfully annotated with "new in 2.2" in (guix build compile).

Yeah, this one’s harmless.

> So it seems to be a case of the unbound variable handler failing to
> handle this unbound variable, when running tests/guix-package.sh:335.
>
> Any ideas for how to progress?  I'm a little out of my depth here :-)

It was running in circles.
Fixed in b5bfa4773d50b12ec7e71e89892474e7f3c679ba!

Thanks,
Ludo’.