Re: a GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH / modules puzzle

[Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>]

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Chris Marusich transcribed 3.0K bytes:
> Nils Gillmann <gillmann@infotropique.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure if guile-users / -dev liste is more appropriate. If it is, let me know.
> >
> > I'm currently still using GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH until I got my layout all set up.
> > There's an issue that I can't seem to get rid of, I'll try my best to describe it now:
> >
> > I have package definitions in 2 repositories (3 to be precise, +1 WIP repo). Both follow
> > the exact same layout that can still be understood by Guix and GPP (GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH).
> >
> > Repository 1: /home/user/src/infotropique/ports
> > Repository 2: /home/user/src/infotropique/pkgs
> >
> > The modules are in similar named subfolders, following the layout $REPONAME $CATEGORY $NAME NAME.
> >
> > I only switched to this recently, previously the "CATEGORY NAME NAME" was located in the root of
> > the reository. Both repos worked this way.
> >
> > After the transition to the new layout, ports works.
> > pkgs however is throwing errors at me for days. I've tried moving all but one module
> > out of the repo, same error. It was a simple easy, no repo-internal dependencies, module.
> > The error is always similar to https://ftp.n0.is/pub/pkgs-error.txt
> >
> > I can not share the actual repo at this moment on this mailinglist, but maybe the
> > repl message is something that someone could give me a hint, even if it's just a
> > tiny bit of a "read this manpage" or something like that would help. I've tried
> > debugging this for days and any help's welcome.
> 
> Could this error be coming from the scheme-files procedure in (guix
> discovery)?  It looks like that's the only place where fold-right is
> invoked in that module, and it seems to match up with the stack trace,

Oh, sorry, I skipped this reply. I'll read that module and see if it helps.

> unless I'm misreading it (which is possible).  You might find it useful
> to insert some pk statements into that code to try to figure out what is
> being evaluated as "unspecified".  My guess, which could be wrong, is
> that perhaps scandir* is returning an unspecified value unintentionally
> at some point?  Someone with more experience debugging Guile code can
> probably provide better advice.
> 
> -- 
> Chris



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