Re: Packaging Proton Bridge: cryptic compilation failure

["Ian Eure" <ian@retrospec.tv>]

Hi Marek,

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024, at 4:26 PM, Marek Paśnikowski wrote:
> Hello Guix
>
> I am towards the end of a first pass of packaging the Proton Bridge program to 
> access my Proton Mail with KMail.
>
> I have worked through and learned about many peculiarities of Golang build 
> system.  As long as I had an error message, I was able to at least work around 
> problems.  However, the latest build failure is completely cryptic to me, as 
> its log contains zero error messages.  It works fine until I get a "build 
> failed" summary:
>
> [snip]
>
> The entire package code is on my personal channel, in "proton-bridge" branch.  
> There is one external dependency on the Efraim’s DFSG channel.
>

I'm not able to replicate your failure, because your channel has some other dependencies I'm missing:

	$ guix build -v 3 -KL /tmp/sovereign/ proton-bridge --cores=1
	guix build: warning: failed to load '(sovereign devices amd64)':
	no code for module (dfsg main golang)
	guix build: warning: failed to load '(sovereign packages bradenaw)':
	no code for module (dfsg main golang)
	guix build: warning: failed to load '(sovereign systems aisaka)':
	no code for module (suweren commons sudoers)
	guix build: warning: failed to load '(sovereign systems akashi)':
	no code for module (machines thinkpad-x200)
	guix build: warning: failed to load '(sovereign systems ayase)':
	no code for module (suweren commons sudoers)
	guix build: warning: failed to load '(sovereign systems mcdowell)':
	no code for module (users id1000)
	guix build: error: proton-bridge: unknown package
	$ 

The Guix manual has a Debugging Build Failures[1] section, which has some good general advice for these kinds of problems.  I also suggest opening the build log file (its path should be printed near the end of the build's stdout) and reading through there -- the build-system output makes things noisier in a way that can sometimes make it hard to see the true cause of the failure.  For whatever reason, it's usually easier for me to spot the problem when I'm paging through the log file, rather than looking at the same output on the terminal.

  -- Ian

[1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Debugging-Build-Failures.html