Re: How to solve "abiI-check: recompilation needed"

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> quite often, after "git pull" I'm facing this error when running
> "make-make-go":
>
> $ make make-go
> Compiling Scheme modules...
> Compiling Scheme modules...
> [ 69%] LOAD     gnu/packages/admin.scm
> error: failed to load 'gnu/packages/check.scm':
> ice-9/eval.scm:293:34: In procedure abi-check: #<record-type
> <package>>: record ABI mismatch; recompilation needed
> make: *** [Makefile:7096: make-packages-go] Fehler 1
>
> How can I solve this, without removing and rebulding *all* files 
> -
> which is time consuming and a waste of electric power.

You need to rebuild all users of the modified record types.  I 
don’t know if you can easily figure out which files these are.

The suggested fix is in fact to rebuild all go files, i.e. “make 
clean-go” and then “make -j”.

--
Ricardo


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