Re: Proposal: prefetch tarballs in a batch

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:

>>>> Does the installation seem sane, basically?  Do ‘guix build’, ‘guix
>>>> package’ etc. work somehow, or not even?
>
>>> Turns out I can’t even build ‘hello’
>
>> Please say exactly why you “can’t”.
>
> Currently, it fails due to the “bad file descriptor” error.

OK.

>> Why the hell do you keep deleting the store?  :-)
>
> I want to make sure that ‘prefetch’ downloads all the needed tarballs.
> Since I don’t use Guix on that machine, I delete the store each time
> instead of using a different prefix.

Ah, OK.

>>> SQLite header and source version mismatch
>>> 2011-11-01 00:52:41 c7c6050ef060877ebe77b41d959e9df13f8c9b5e
>>> 2013-09-03 17:11:13 7dd4968f235d6e1ca9547cda9cf3bd570e1609ef
>
>>> This was discussed before and should be fixed by upgrading SQLite.
>
>> OK.  Can you report how things go one that is fixed?
>
>> 1. Run ‘git show c0412fedf | patch -p1 -R’, and then confirm that the
>>    problem disappears.
>
>> 2. Run ‘git reset --hard’, edit config.h, and comment out the HAVE_
>>    macros corresponding to the functions listed in c0412fedf, one at a
>>    time.
>
> What would be a reliable way to run the testsuite after each of the
> above steps?  Would ‘make clean && autoreconf -vfi && make && make
> check’ be sufficient?

‘make check’ should be sufficient: it will rebuild ‘configure’, re-run
it, rebuild guix-daemon, etc.

Ludo’.