Hello,
I have a relatively recent guix version (ran guix pull yesterday) and I can't build emacs, as libarchive, one of its dependencies, fails to build. Here is a snippet of the error message:
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Reference files will be read from: /tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/tar/test
Running tests on: "/tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/libarchive-3.1.2/./bsdtar"
Exercising: bsdtar 3.1.2 - libarchive 3.1.2
0: test_0 ok
1: test_basic ok
2: test_copy ok
3: test_empty_mtree ok
4: test_extract_tar_bz2 ok
5: test_extract_tar_grz ok
6: test_extract_tar_gz ok
7: test_extract_tar_lrz ok
8: test_extract_tar_lz ok
9: test_extract_tar_lzma ok
10: test_extract_tar_lzo ok
11: test_extract_tar_xz ok
12: test_extract_tar_Z ok
13: test_format_newc ok
14: test_help ok
15: test_option_a ok
16: test_option_b64encode ok
17: test_option_b FAIL
18: test_option_C_upper ok
19: test_option_exclude ok
20: test_option_gid_gname ok
21: test_option_grzip ok
22: test_option_H_upper ok
23: test_option_j ok
24: test_option_k ok
25: test_option_keep_newer_files ok
26: test_option_lrzip ok
27: test_option_L_upper ok
28: test_option_lzma ok
29: test_option_lzop ok
30: test_option_n ok
31: test_option_newer_than ok
32: test_option_nodump ok
33: test_option_older_than ok
34: test_option_O_upper ok
35: test_option_q ok
36: test_option_r ok
37: test_option_s ok
38: test_option_T_upper ok
39: test_option_uid_uname ok
40: test_option_uuencode ok
41: test_option_U_upper ok
42: test_option_X_upper ok
43: test_option_xz ok
44: test_option_z ok
45: test_patterns ok
46: test_print_longpath ok
47: test_stdio ok
48: test_strip_components ok
49: test_symlink_dir ok
50: test_version ok
51: test_windows ok
Totals:
Tests run: 52
Tests failed: 1
Assertions checked: 7715
Assertions failed: 2
Skips reported: 6
Failing tests:
17: test_option_b (2 failures)
Details for failing tests: /tmp/nix-build-libarchive-3.1.2.drv-0/bsdtar_test.2015-11-13T09.52.46-000
phase `check' failed after 77.9 seconds
builder for `/gnu/store/671ccl9qibwzzaizq3g9rjdinisqspiz-libarchive-3.1.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/laphmpnyxy3aiwn6s2s2hmk6a2kb110l-cmake-3.3.2.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/aw9721lq55hzgy3ld8hw0jvxq04pc7mn-graphite2-1.3.3.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/p2yxxb0xn8yrmrnbh3y1v6crlx8bxxjc-openjpeg-1.5.2.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/rsbdafy8zjb8iyx035cd35x28pd295lk-emacs-24.5.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/w6ifcj7iq7g23rx8xy55325kxavpp65y-gtk+-3.18.2.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/sbamsn3qcwc6ny09ix51swagczd6wmrl-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix package: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/sbamsn3qcwc6ny09ix51swagczd6wmrl-profile.drv' failed
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Let me know if I can provide more details. I'm running guix on Fedora 23.