Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> A first RC for the upcoming 1.3.0 release is now available for testing

I tested the binary for powerpc64le-linux on a Debian 10 ppc64el system.
It seems to be behaving as well as I expected it to.  Thank you for
preparing it!

On powerpc64le-linux, the installation script worked fine (I ran it
while logged into the root account via "su --login").  However, when I
ran "guix pull" (without substitutes, of course, since those are not yet
available for this platform), I encountered an error:

  building /gnu/store/6ljrcy6pd2g5c02gkfdj1zxca3ybpg18-texlive-latex-amscls-51265.drv...
  - 'build' phaseBacktrace:
            13 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/ylynparc7pjhyxkcs9p1kwqa09an3vba-compute-guix-derivation")
  In ice-9/eval.scm:
      155:9 12 (_ _)
      159:9 11 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#<directory (guile-u?> ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?))
  In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
      152:2 10 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
      152:2  9 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
  In ./guix/store.scm:
    2066:24  8 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 7fff94a063c0> _ #:guile-for-build _ #:system _ #:target _)
     1900:8  7 (_ _)
  In ./guix/gexp.scm:
     256:18  6 (_ _)
     1137:2  5 (_ _)
     1003:2  4 (_ _)
      849:4  3 (_ _)
  In ./guix/store.scm:
    1948:12  2 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fff94a063c0>)
     1362:5  1 (map/accumulate-builds #<store-connection 256.99 7fff94a063c0> _ _)
    1373:15  0 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fff94a063c0> _ _)

  ./guix/store.scm:1373:15: ERROR:
    1. &store-protocol-error:
        message: "build of `/gnu/store/xfkrpagvnpc4xz43b6za80qrvnlsb8f0-po4a-0.61.drv' failed"
        status: 100
  guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/ylynparc7pjhyxkcs9p1kwqa09an3vba-compute-guix-derivation'
  failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "fcd002ccfa3a2bf28a9d05ab2992464afc6e5fca"; system: "powerpc64le-linux";
  host version: "1.3.0rc1"; pull-version: 1).
  Please report it by email to <bug-guix@gnu.org>.

When I tried building
/gnu/store/xfkrpagvnpc4xz43b6za80qrvnlsb8f0-po4a-0.61.drv a second time,
it succeeded:

  guix build --cores=1 \
             --max-jobs=1 \
             --keep-failed \
             /gnu/store/xfkrpagvnpc4xz43b6za80qrvnlsb8f0-po4a-0.61.drv

I was then able to successfully run "guix pull" a second time.  After
that, I successfully built GNU Hello via "guix build hello" and ran it.
So, everything seems OK, except for the non-deterministic po4a failure.

I wonder if the po4a failure affects other architectures, but maybe it
just isn't noticed because most people use substitutes.  As far as I can
tell, the po4a failure has not been reported in our bug tracker.  If I
can reproduce the issue, I'll open a bug report for it.

-- 
Chris