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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Subject: Re: Guix build output insufficient
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:34:11 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> What about immediately giving the file name of the log, as with=20
>> the
>> patch attached?  Several people have already mentioned not=20
>> knowing about
>> =E2=80=98guix build --log-file=E2=80=99 so this would probably be helpfu=
l.
>
> This would be fine.
>
> Note that the patch cannot be applied because I had to change=20
> how =E2=80=9C@
> build-failed=E2=80=9D is treated.  The underlying problem here is that=20
> the
> daemon may send a multi-line message through the port, which
> unfortunately doesn=E2=80=99t necessarily arrive in one piece.
>
> AFAICS the only such message is the hash mismatch error.  If we=20
> could
> force it to remain on one line we could better format that=20
> single-line
> string in guix/ui.scm.
>
> (Now we get half of the message, followed by another string=20
> matching
> =E2=80=9C^\s+actual:\s+(.*)=E2=80=9D, which we cannot process as we do no=
t keep=20
> track of
> state.)


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Kind regards,

T G-R