Re: Getting rid of "source file [...] newer than compiled" messages

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

Hello Katherine,

Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont:
2019. ápr. 6., Szo, 23:16):
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
> > This is really odd and I cannot reproduce this.  I wonder if this might
> > be related to some unusual file system choices or settings that cause
> > Guile to think that the source files are more recent.
>
> I have accepted that I have somehow gotten myself into a dark corner of
> Guix! I was expecting there to be a Guix command that would basically
> get any package back into a good state. I was kind of surprised that
> `guix build --check` or `guix build --repair` didn't help me out. My
> expectation was that maybe this would check the hash of the store with
> upstream and rebuild or redownload a substitute.
>

I believe you might be looking looking for guix gc --verify, and
suboptions thereof.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-gc.html

Does that help?

> > Can you show us the mtime of these files?  In my case both the scm and
> > the go files all have their mtime as 1970-01-01 01:00:01.000000000
> > +0100.
>
> One interesting point might be that there are no `.go` files. I would
> argue Guile's error message here could use some care, but even a better
> error message won't get me to a better spot :)
>
> Thanks again for the time, Ricardo.
>
> --
> Katherine
>

Best regards,
g_bor