Re: RPC pipelining

[Roel Janssen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi Roel,
>
> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be 
>> uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
>> substitute: ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls):
>> substitute: ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)
>> substitute: Backtrace:
>> substitute:            1 (primitive-load 
>> "/gnu/repositories/guix/scripts/guix")
>> substitute: In guix/ui.scm:
>> substitute:   1352:12  0 (run-guix-command _ . _)
>> substitute: 
>> substitute: guix/ui.scm:1352:12: In procedure run-guix-command:
>> substitute: guix/ui.scm:1352:12: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound 
>> variable: make-session
>> guix environment: error: build failed: writing to file: Broken pipe
>
> This is because ‘guix substitute’, called by ‘guix-daemon’, doesn’t find
> (gnutls) in its GUILE_LOAD_PATH.
>
> Use either “sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon …” so that guix-daemon
> inherits GUILE_LOAD_PATH and GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH, or
> --no-substitutes.
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
> Ludo’.

Thanks for the pointer.  I think it was a bad idea to try it with the
pre-inst-env, because before it even got to this point I had to modify
the location of guile in the header of scripts/guix.

So, maybe I shouldn't be using the pre-inst-env at all and just
properly install the patched version.  I can always --roll-back anyway.

So I applied the patch, and ran:
make dist

Which produced a tarball.
I then modified the guix recipe to use the tarball instead of a git
checkout.  But unfortunately, building it is again troublesome:

...
  GUILEC   guix/scripts/import/gem.go
  GUILEC   guix/scripts/import/pypi.go
  GUILEC   guix/scripts/import/stackage.go
  GUILEC   guix/ssh.go
  GUILEC   guix/scripts/copy.go
  GUILEC   guix/store/ssh.go
  GUILEC   guix/scripts/offload.go
  GUILEC   guix/config.go
  GUILEC   guix/tests.go
  GUILEC   guix/tests/http.go
;;; Failed to autoload make-page-map in (charting):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (charting)
;;; Failed to autoload make-page-map in (charting):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (charting)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload exec-command in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
random seed for tests: 1499856249
;;; Failed to autoload make-page-map in (charting):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (charting)
;;; Failed to autoload make-page-map in (charting):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (charting)
;;; Failed to autoload make-page-map in (charting):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (charting)
guix/scripts/size.scm:211:2: warning: possibly unbound variable `make-page-map'
;;; Failed to autoload make-page-map in (charting):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (charting)
;;; Failed to autoload make-page-map in (charting):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (charting)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload exec-command in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload exec-command in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
gnu/build/shepherd.scm:98:13: warning: possibly unbound variable `read-pid-file'
gnu/build/shepherd.scm:159:32: warning: possibly unbound variable `exec-command'
gnu/build/shepherd.scm:170:14: warning: possibly unbound variable 
`read-pid-file'
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload exec-command in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload exec-command in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)
;;; Failed to autoload read-pid-file in (shepherd service):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (shepherd service)

Some deprecated features have been used.  Set the environment
variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the
program to get more information.  Set it to "no" to suppress
this message.
...


Why does Guix need Shepherd?  And if it needs the (charting)
module, why isn't guile-charting already an input?

If I could get this to work, then I could use this mechanism in the
future too, to test patches on our cluster before they end up in
upstream.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen