Re: Packaging Proton Bridge: Progress Report #1

["Ian Eure" <ian@retrospec.tv>]

Hi Marek,

On Mon, Dec 9, 2024, at 4:24 PM, Marek Paśnikowski wrote:
> I managed to break through version incompatibilites thanks to discovery of the 
> guix:build-system:go:go-version->git-ref function, which allowed me to use the 
> specifications in go.mod files directly.
>
> I am currently blocked on what seems to be an actual upstream coding bug, for 
> which I filed a report:
> https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/511
>
> It boils down to an undefined variable reference, which used to be defined two 
> years ago.
>
> Build error:
> src/github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/v3/internal/frontend/cli/system.go:
> 48:43: undefined: bridge.Credits
>
> Commit reference:
> https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/commit/
> 77cd2955f1413c96a1d987d0d7f9d8ecf6a8ad49
>
> The removed code snippet in file internal/bridge/credits.go :
> package bridge
> const Credits = "string of go module paths"
>

This isn't an upstream bug, it's an error in your package.  As the "(generated)" comment in .gitignore in your liked commit implies, this file is now codegenned as part of the build: https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/blob/4f4a2c3fd8f7304a9b3ff81d3f42828b95296b7f/Makefile#L351-L353

Since you're not running the command that creates the file, the build fails.

  -- Ian