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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution , Ryan Prior Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Scanner: ns3122888.ip-94-23-21.eu Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail (headers rsa verify failed) header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=NSou8K8s; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: 0.09 X-TUID: Y2eCKFRFYsHd Hey, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ryan Prior writes: > >> I'm glad for the "without-tests" option because when I'm working on >> packages with a test suite that takes more than a few seconds, I like to >> make sure that the rest of everything is working before I start running >> the tests. > > Exactly, that was my original thought. > >> Another thing I'd like is an option to build a package reusing the state >> from a previous build. If a package I'm working on takes a minute or >> longer to build and I'm having some sort of difficulty, it's obnoxious >> to wait for that to complete again after every cycle. It could be near >> instantaneous if I could re-use a cached build, which is doable in >> Docker, Earthly, and other containerized build systems. > > You can kind of do that manually now. > Build with the -K option and when it fails, drop to the temporary > directly, source the `environment-variables` file, fix the code or calls > then proceed. > > Obviously reusing cached build would be nicer. > > Maybe even better would be debugger access to the daemon. On build > error we would be dropped in the debugger in the stack frame where it > errored. We would fix it, then continue, in the most traditional Lisp > fashion! I was thinking about such a thing recently; it would indeed be nice to be able to debug in the "real" build environment. Sometimes a test fail just in the "real" build environment; so being able to debug it in situ could be useful. Maxim