bug#23970: colordiff glitch

[Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>]

OK, thanks, that explains it, case closed...

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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’.



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Vincent Legoll