Re: developing for guix with git

[Nils Gillmann]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 10:28:25PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>>>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Do you happen to know why guix in the situation I described,
>>>> >> being on an up to date branch following master refuses to build,
>>>> >> but once I switch to master branch, make clean, make clean-go (or
>>>> >> go-clean?) and run make (and the other commands) again it builds
>>>> >> successfully? This was my initial confusion.
>>>> >
>>>> > It’s hard to say without being able to take a look at the state of the
>>>> > branch.  It is possible that a change you introduced in your branch
>>>> > broke things.  Maybe you could share error messages?
>>>> 
>>>> I'll inline all the things here now:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> ;;; ERROR: Unbound variable: git-fetch
>>>
>>> Did you import (guix git-download)?
>>
>> I am not sure.
>> Adding to the Email I just wrote to this thread, how would I do this?
>
> Leo means to add this to the file you have edited (lisp.scm).
> Currently, there’s only
>
>       #:use-module (guix download)
>
> but you need to also add
>
>       #:use-module (guix git-download)
>
> if you’re using the ‘git-fetch’ procedure.  Because ‘git-fetch’ is
> undefined otherwise Guile fails to load “lisp.scm” and this failure
> cascades through everything else.
>
> It would certainly be nice if the actual error would appear on the last
> line instead of one of the errors resulting from not being able to load
> “lisp.scm”.
>
> ~~ Ricardo
>

Okay, I do understand now that if "make check" fails with some errors,
those are related to a file I am working on and that fixing those errors
lets "make check" pass. If one thing is broken, everything falls.
This might be information I know when I am not ill. Good that I did
waste some days on this. Problem seems solved now, by reading more into
sources.

Thanks,
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