bug#22251: ghc-memory test suite fails on i686

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 17:12, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

> Well, as I vaguely recall (possibly mistakenly), ghc-memory sometimes
> built successfully back in 2015 on i686-linux as well.  The issue I
> reported was that it often failed.

This could happen.  I remember similar hard time with the package
Guitarix and bug#21803.


> Unfortunately, last I checked, Cuirass still does not provide anything
> close to the level of functionality that Hydra previously provided for
> us.  So maybe this bug still exists, or maybe it doesn't.  The
> information provided by 'guix weather' is too crude to answer that
> question.

I agree.  Running on all the public build farms I am aware of, I get:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix weather ghc-memory -s i686-linux --substitute-urls="https://ci.guix.gnu.org https://bayfront.guix.gnu.org https://guix.cbaines.net https://guix.tobias.gr https://builds.guix-patches.cbaines.net"
computing 1 package derivations for i686-linux...

[...]

https://ci.guix.gnu.org
  100.0% substitutes available (2 out of 2)

[...]

https://bayfront.guix.gnu.org
  0.0% substitutes available (0 out of 2)

[...]

https://guix.cbaines.net
  100.0% substitutes available (2 out of 2)

[...]

https://guix.tobias.gr
  0.0% substitutes available (0 out of 2)

[...]

https://builds.guix-patches.cbaines.net
  0.0% substitutes available (0 out of 2)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

However, I am not convinced that bayfront.guix.gnu.org, guix.tobias.gr
and builds.guix-patches.cbaines.net build for i686 since they do not
even have the package ’hello’.

Well, a second data point is still crude.


> Thanks again for working through these old bugs, Simon.

It is a pleasure, or at least a fun mean to be more familiar with
Guix. :-)

All the best,
simon