Re: Unable to use Aspell installed via Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Niall,

Niall Dooley <address@hidden> skribis:

> The following package will be installed:
>    aspell-dict-en     2016.11.20-0    
> /gnu/store/0krzlail39f8lf58bnm0jwvrr0sb0f8s-aspell-dict-en-2016.11.20-0
>
> The following derivations will be built:
>    /gnu/store/g9qgdjdx29km0njjnsbfynnc4s6if046-profile.drv
>    /gnu/store/wpjssm1mq5yw568gl53vkzg3brlpn7fz-ca-certificate-bundle.drv
>    /gnu/store/wb92jkdz04x0s7q00dpykx6b49p19nil-gtk-im-modules.drv
>    /gnu/store/m50w7gsvqffbshppfz6a0np24b3lmih6-fonts-dir.drv
>    /gnu/store/326vijw9q3r3jmnzyzwr7zzcnnapf746-module-import.drv
>    /gnu/store/60avpqwd3ibjr961crd5czdrk51pkapm-module-import-compiled.drv
>    /gnu/store/k5v6ly8x6lbzqx32nkw9698ndzpwg50m-gtk-icon-themes.drv
>    /gnu/store/k38q4ykbj7dqmp0cimqg7b85dljjbpvy-info-dir.drv
>    /gnu/store/0avf60c7la7q3wssp1q8w1vsfb4jcr1v-xdg-mime-database.drv
>    /gnu/store/p4gi1clp3nhaii069rp2f0pvq8qcnd53-manual-database.drv

[...]

> Downloading 
> https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/nr0qaf4xihy08mh2d0jyfjk964hgbd01-libatomic-ops-7.4.4
>  (623KiB installed)...
> guix substitute: error: download from 
> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/nr0qaf4xihy08mh2d0jyfjk964hgbd01-libatomic-ops-7.4.4'
>  failed: 404, "Not Found"

I can’t seem to reproduce this problem.

How old is your Guix installation, or the last time since you run “guix
pull” (“guix --version” should report that)?

Can you try adding this flag to the ‘guix package’ command line:

  --substitute-urls=https://hydra.gnu.org

?  It instructs Guix to bypass the mirror; does it make a difference?

[...]

> make  check-TESTS
> make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-libgc-7.6.0.drv-0/gc-7.6.0'
> make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-libgc-7.6.0.drv-0/gc-7.6.0'
> PASS: cordtest
> PASS: leaktest
> PASS: middletest
> PASS: smashtest
> PASS: hugetest
> PASS: realloc_test
> PASS: staticrootstest
> PASS: threadleaktest
> PASS: threadkey_test
> PASS: subthreadcreate_test
> PASS: initsecondarythread_test
> PASS: test_cpp
> PASS: disclaim_test
> PASS: disclaim_bench

Here Guix ended up building from source due to the lack of substitutes;
however, libgc hangs in one of its tests apparently, in a
non-deterministic fashion.  We’ll have to investigate whether that
happens with the current libgc package.

Ludo’.