Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

[Gary Johnson]

Hi Guix,

After my latest "guix pull", I tried building dvd+rw-tools, but it is
erroring out when trying to build cdrtools. Attempting to build cdrtools
directly, returns the same fatal error with a rather lengthy log file
associated with the build.

After digging through it, I noticed several possible issues in the build process:

- no perl is installed (shouldn't this be in the package's inputs list?)
- warning that GNU make is unmaintained and suggesting that we use s-make instead
- broken ext2_fs.h (/gnu/store/3c9a43ifhbjm8lsc1s183y8a8874fz01-linux-libre-headers-4.14.67/include/linux/ext2_fs.h is broken... yes)

There may be more than this going on, but these were the warnings and
errors and jumped out at me as I went through the log file.

Any help in getting this package (cdrtools) to build correctly would be
much appreciated.

Thanks,
  Gary
  

Re: Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Gary Johnson wrote:
> After my latest "guix pull", I tried building dvd+rw-tools, but it is
> erroring out when trying to build cdrtools. Attempting to build cdrtools
> directly, returns the same fatal error with a rather lengthy log file
> associated with the build.

I cannot reproduce this; could it be some non-determinism in the build
process? Both packages build without problem for me with commit
406ef442580e6a1b68ca99091fef2935dc4fbb4f .

Andreas

Re: Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

[Björn Höfling]

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On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 20:49:35 +0100
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:

> I cannot reproduce this; could it be some non-determinism in the build
> process? Both packages build without problem for me with commit
> 406ef442580e6a1b68ca99091fef2935dc4fbb4f .

I can confirm it is indeterministically failing: I tried it a week ago
or so and sometimes it builds and sometimes not.

For example, the latest Hydra evaluations fails:

https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3346840

I don't understand the error-log or which of these messages is a real
error and which not. Anyone else?

Björn

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Re: Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

[Gábor Boskovits]

Hello,

Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> ezt írta (időpont:
2019. febr. 5., K, 21:40):
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 20:49:35 +0100
> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:
>
> > I cannot reproduce this; could it be some non-determinism in the build
> > process? Both packages build without problem for me with commit
> > 406ef442580e6a1b68ca99091fef2935dc4fbb4f .
>
> I can confirm it is indeterministically failing: I tried it a week ago
> or so and sometimes it builds and sometimes not.
>
> For example, the latest Hydra evaluations fails:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3346840
>
> I don't understand the error-log or which of these messages is a real
> error and which not. Anyone else?
>

The showstopper here seems to be this:

../RULES/local.cnf:46: OBJ/x86_64-linux-gcc/local.cnf: No such file or directory
4273make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'autoconf.m4', needed by
'configure'. Stop.
4274make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

this part looks like this on a working build:

ln: failed to create symbolic link './priv.c': File exists
ln: failed to create symbolic link './acgeneral.m4': File exists
ln: failed to create symbolic link './aclocal.m4': File exists
ln: failed to create symbolic link './acoldnames.m4': File exists
ln: failed to create symbolic link './acspecific.m4': File exists

> Björn


I will have a further look at this tomorrow, comparing earlier parts of the log.

The ext2 header also warnings on succesful builds, so that is not the problem.
I also believe that perl is not the problem.

Best regards,
g_bor

Re: Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi,

> After my latest "guix pull", I tried building dvd+rw-tools, but it is
> erroring out when trying to build cdrtools. Attempting to build cdrtools
> directly, returns the same fatal error with a rather lengthy log file
> associated with the build.
>
> After digging through it, I noticed several possible issues in the build process:
>
> - no perl is installed (shouldn't this be in the package's inputs list?)
> - warning that GNU make is unmaintained and suggesting that we use s-make instead
> - broken ext2_fs.h (/gnu/store/3c9a43ifhbjm8lsc1s183y8a8874fz01-linux-libre-headers-4.14.67/include/linux/ext2_fs.h is broken... yes)

The cdrtools author is known for being snarky and this is reflected in
the output of the build system.

It’s possible that we need to add “#:parallel-build? #f” to the
build system arguments to address the non-deterministic failures.

--
Ricardo