From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: 36592@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36592: no output for guix package -f when the file evaluates to nothing
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:31:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D62FD64C-F99A-4D36-8DCB-9D2DED3F3A74@lepiller.eu> (raw)
Users tend to copy what they see in our code base, so it's not rare to have to help them realise that if their last statement is (define-public ...), the file doesn't evaluate to a package.
Running guix build -f mypackage.scm at least gives an error saying it doesn't know how to compile #<unspecified>.
Running guix package -f mypackage.scm returns immediately with no error message and a status of 0, but doesn't actually build or install anything. You can even try with an empty file :)
There should be an error message, and probably even a hint.
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2019-07-11 9:31 Julien Lepiller [this message]
2019-09-20 7:42 ` bug#36592: no output for guix package -f when the file evaluates to nothing Ludovic Courtès
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