From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Inscrutable error when using =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cguix_deploy?= =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9D?= Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:59:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87muflwpxq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sgptjkb9.fsf@elephly.net> <87blwgjc8w.fsf@elephly.net> <87zhjy5txx.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i57TV-00062q-4s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2019 07:59:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zhjy5txx.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> (Jakob L. Kreuze's message of "Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:55:54 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: "Jakob L. Kreuze" Cc: guix-devel Hi, zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) skribis: > I saw this specific error message a few times while I was building 'guix > deploy'. It means something's been printed that can't be read, which > (might) be the case if something doesn't have a G-Expression compiler. > My money is on the target not having a reader for , > but as you've observed, the error reporting makes this incredibly > difficult to diagnose. We could probably arrange so that =E2=80=98gexp->sexp=E2=80=99 reports abou= t objects without a read syntax that remain in the resulting sexp. Ludo=E2=80=99.