Re: Graceful handling of missing patches

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:22:39AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> With commits 6b1f972 and dbab515, patch-not-found errors are now
> gracefully handled at run time:
> 
>   $ ./pre-inst-env guix build findutils
>   guix build: error: WHAT?.patch: patch not found
> 
> This introduces an ABI change, so make sure to run:
> 
>   make clean-go && make

Compilation now fails for me with
/bin/mkdir -p `dirname "guix/scripts/refresh.go"` ;                     \
LC_ALL=C                                                        \
./pre-inst-env                                  \
/usr/bin/guild compile -L "." -L "."    \
  -Wformat -Wunbound-variable -Warity-mismatch                  \
  --target="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"                                           \
  -o "guix/scripts/refresh.go" "guix/scripts/refresh.scm"
;;; note: source file ./guix/config.scm
;;;       newer than compiled /usr/local/guix-git/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/config.go
;;; note: source file ./gnu/packages.scm
;;;       newer than compiled /usr/local/guix-git/share/guile/site/2.0/gnu/packages.go
;;; note: source file ./gnu/packages/guile.scm
;;;       newer than compiled /usr/local/guix-git/share/guile/site/2.0/gnu/packages/guile.go
;;; note: source file ./gnu/packages/gnome.scm
;;;       newer than compiled /usr/local/guix-git/share/guile/site/2.0/gnu/packages/gnome.go
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2111: 19 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 1adb390 at language/scheme/compile-tree-il.scm:29:3 ()>]
In language/scheme/compile-tree-il.scm:
  31: 18 [#<procedure 1adb390 at language/scheme/compile-tree-il.scm:29:3 ()>]
In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
1101: 17 [expand-top-sequence ((define-module # # # ...)) () ((top)) ...]
 986: 16 [scan ((define-module (guix scripts refresh) #:use-module ...)) () ...]
 270: 15 [scan ((#(syntax-object let # ...) (#) (# #) ...)) () ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 392: 14 [eval # ()]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2667: 13 [define-module* (guix scripts refresh) #:filename ...]
2642: 12 [resolve-imports (((guix ui)) ((guix hash)) ((guix store)) ...)]
2580: 11 [resolve-interface (gnu packages commencement) #:select ...]
2505: 10 [#<procedure 1733340 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2493:4 (name #:optional autoload version #:key ensure)> # ...]
2772: 9 [try-module-autoload (gnu packages commencement) #f]
2111: 8 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 24d24b0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2773:17 ()>]
2783: 7 [#<procedure 24d24b0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2773:17 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 6 [primitive-load-path "gnu/packages/commencement" #f]
In gnu/packages/commencement.scm:
 613: 5 [#<procedure 24e1360 ()>]
In guix/utils.scm:
 428: 4 [#<procedure 1a03870 at guix/utils.scm:424:4 args> #]
In gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:
 147: 3 [#<procedure 2511b20 at gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm:134:3 (p)> #]
  77: 2 [bootstrap-origin #]
In unknown file:
   ?: 1 [scm-error wrong-type-arg "map" ...]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 106: 0 [#<procedure 1958b00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)> wrong-type-arg ...]

ice-9/boot-9.scm:106:20: In procedure #<procedure 1958b00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)>:
ice-9/boot-9.scm:106:20: In procedure map: Not a list: #<promise ("./gnu/packages/patches/guile-arm-fixes.patch")>
Makefile:4030: die Regel für Ziel „guix/scripts/refresh.go“ scheiterte

I am still using the guile-2.0.5 from debian.

Andreas