bug#22354: Test failure when running distcheck from out-of-tree build

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> If one runs distcheck from within the build directory of an out-of-tree
> build (perhaps a strange combination), the guix-environment.sh test
> fails with the following log snippet.

[...]

> ./configure: ./config.status: /home/taylan/src/guix/build/guix-0.9.1/_build/sub/test-tmp/store/d41iyl2gyk0r: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I think you’re hitting the shebang limit (127 chars) that prevents you
from running test from that build tree.  ./configure emits a warning in
this case, which you should see in ‘config.log’.

So, not a bug, but it would have been nicer if ‘make check’ had failed
directly.  Commit bb25130 does that.

Though now that I look again at the error above, I see that we’re below
the 127 char limit.  Weird.

Thanks,
Ludo’.