Hey!

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> → guix build -f test.scm 
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Backtrace:
>            4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/8mv5bpjgxg9c369xnbb5rf1kv9r?")
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>     619:8  3 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?))
>    182:19  2 (proc #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(# ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?))
>    142:16  1 (compile-top-call #<directory (guile-user) 7f1e0abc1f00> ?)
> In unknown file:
>            0 (%resolve-variable (7 . call-with-new-thread) #<directo?>)
>
> ERROR: In procedure %resolve-variable:
> Unbound variable: call-with-new-thread
> guix build: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/8mv5bpjgxg9c369xnbb5rf1kv9r6z5hw-compute-guix-derivation'
> failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "e02c2f85b36ce1c733bd908a210ce1182bdd2560"; system: "x86_64-linux";
> host version: "a8cb1e72ef351330d1521833c1b270dcc0da593f"; pull-version: 1).

A summary of the IRC discussion and experiments:

  1. The underlying problem is a missing (ice-9 threads) import in the
     ‘compute-guix-derivation’ script, fixed in
     05e783871c2c69b402e088863d46f5be7915ac74.

  2. The ‘%quirks’ mechanism in (guix channels) doesn’t work as is here
     because what we would need to change is the #:guile parameter
     passed to ‘gexp->script’ (the one defined in build-self.scm).
     Attached a patch to add a quirk but that doesn’t solve the problem.

Possible solutions include:

  a. Changing the value returned by ‘default-guile’ as used by
     ‘gexp->script’.

  b. Supporting the definition of quirks that patch the code.

Thanks,
Ludo’.