Hi Guix!

I'm working on a building a custom kernel for my laptop.

I've used the instructions given by Ludo in an older mail:

	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-07/msg00166.html

So far so good.

I've generated a .config with Linux' `make menuconfig`.  My experience
with menuconfig mostly dates back from my days on Gentoo, so I'm not
sure how much applies to GuixSD.

When building, I run into a sequence of errors:

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...
phase `compress-documentation' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
The following derivations will be built:
   /gnu/store/hjwj30a2g5q5msgavcf2hin2xm6i53bj-system.drv
   /gnu/store/rkbkwijai8bi053qysvd2grckkf97c06-grub.cfg.drv
   /gnu/store/wvahc3jc4v80jdilizsa13sv7biwi1gf-linux-modules.drv
   /gnu/store/02zbl4j4svycqp8csr0m1ixbbvcxwl9f-init.drv
   /gnu/store/k03h3ry4nrsv8phyphmxrqr5c69j9f7w-parameters.drv
   /gnu/store/vhqsgknpamjsl2c36a2z20snjqik5q2p-raw-initrd.drv
Backtrace:
          12 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/c9z5pkc2kv416wgjkqpjpp4lypr?")
In ice-9/eval.scm:
    619:8 11 (_ #f)
   626:19 10 (_ #<directory (guile-user) 7cc140>)
   293:34  9 (_ #(#<directory (guile-user) 7cc140> #<procedure loo?>))
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   592:29  8 (map1 _)
   592:29  7 (map1 _)
   592:29  6 (map1 ("uas" "usbhid" "hid-generic" "hid-apple" "dm-?" ?))
   592:29  5 (map1 ("usbhid" "hid-generic" "hid-apple" "dm-crypt" # ?))
   592:29  4 (map1 ("hid-generic" "hid-apple" "dm-crypt" "xts" "s?" ?))
   592:29  3 (map1 ("hid-apple" "dm-crypt" "xts" "serpent_generic" ?))
   592:29  2 (map1 ("dm-crypt" "xts" "serpent_generic" "wp512" "n?" ?))
   592:17  1 (map1 ("xts" "serpent_generic" "wp512" "nls_iso8859-1" ?))
In unknown file:
           0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S ~S" ("kernel module?" ?) ?)

ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
kernel module not found "xts" "/gnu/store/n1fvlgqq3cmfpy120y6ladw0k229y435-linux-custom-4.14.69/lib/modules"
...
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Note that the build runs fine but install fails.  If I edit my .config
to include the missing module (here "xts") then the next rebuilt will
fail on the next missing module.

Including the module into the kernel ("y" instead of "m") does not work.

The list of module does not match the expectation I guess but I don't
know what Guix is trying to do here.

Insights?

--
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/