From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Graceful handling of missing patches Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:29:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20150120222940.GA14118@debian> References: <20150118132526.GA15628@debian> <87zj9gcgpe.fsf@gnu.org> <20150118161010.GA20517@debian> <87a91gcamz.fsf@gnu.org> <20150118164207.GA21387@debian> <87d269kdr4.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDhJ1-0006XH-BU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:29:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDhJ0-00074V-Jk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:29:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d269kdr4.fsf_-_@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:22:39AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > $ ./pre-inst-env guix build findutils > guix build: error: WHAT?.patch: patch not found This turned out to be crucial in debugging: The problem with "guix build soprano" was not in the patch of soprano (which was there), but of its input clucene; with the more informative error message, we found the problem together with Ludovic: A few patches were there in git, but not added to gnu-system.am. So they were not installed by "make install". This is corrected in commit 2dfed64. Andreas