From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Inscrutable error when using “guix deploy”
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:30:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgpcflwy.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muflwpxq.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludo,
> 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 <operating-system>,
>> but as you've observed, the error reporting makes this incredibly
>> difficult to diagnose.
>
> We could probably arrange so that ‘gexp->sexp’ reports about objects
> without a read syntax that remain in the resulting sexp.
This is a good idea. It’s never the right thing for unreadable syntax
to appear in a generated S-expression when using Gexps, so producing an
error at conversion time seems much better.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-22 15:23 Inscrutable error when using “guix deploy” Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-22 22:40 ` alex sassmannshausen
2019-08-23 12:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-24 17:55 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-09-03 11:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-04 9:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-09-05 14:21 ` Jakob L. Kreuze
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