From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: verbose backtraces when “invoke” fails
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:21:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef96e7zu.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
Hi Guix,
I’d like us to catch the errors raised by “invoke”, so that the output
of a failing build looks nicer again.
Before we used “invoke” build phases evaluating to #f would cause the
build system to abort and print a nice message. Now users get an ugly
backtrace that is much too verbose for what it’s trying to say, namely
that a command invocation failed.
There is no value in the backtrace itself (users don’t care where
“invoke” is defined, for example); we only want the error message.
Shall we fix this on core-updates?
--
Ricardo
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-21 8:21 UTC|newest]
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2019-01-21 8:21 Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-21 9:12 ` verbose backtraces when “invoke” fails Hartmut Goebel
2019-01-21 13:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
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