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[PATCH] doc: Add message for common error about make check-system

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From: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Cc: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add message for common error about make check-system
Date: Thu,  4 Apr 2024 17:17:03 -0400

* doc/guix.texi: Mention that make clean may need to be run before running
make check-system when previous builds were run with different work trees. See
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573.

Change-Id: I39d465961637d9fc6b11f59e1500770220780b4c
---
Hi Guix!

Ran into this issue myself. It seems common enough to be worth
mentioning in the docs, similar to the message in (guix) Building from
Git.

I found my solution from https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573.

>    If you get an error like this one:
> 
>      configure.ac:46: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES


 doc/guix.texi | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index ef9e4216b4..72cac183a5 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1177,6 +1177,23 @@ Running the Test Suite
 substitutes are available for their dependencies (@pxref{Substitutes}).
 Some of them require a lot of storage space to hold VM images.
 
+If you encounter an error like this one:
+
+@example
+Compiling Scheme modules...
+ice-9/eval.scm:142:16: In procedure compile-top-call:
+error: all-system-tests: unbound variable
+hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (gnu tests))'?
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+there may be inconsistency in the work tree from previous builds.  Try
+running:
+
+@example
+make clean && make
+@end example
+
 Again in case of test failures, please send @email{bug-guix@@gnu.org}
 all the details.
 

base-commit: ade6845da6cec99f3bca46faac9b2bad6877817e
-- 
2.41.0

Message #10 received at 70202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
Cc: 70202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#70202] [PATCH] doc: Add message for common error about
 make check-system
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:50:36 +0200

Hello Richard, I am hesitant because I cannot reproduce the error and it
might be better to fix it rather than document it.  Looking at,

Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com> writes:
> * doc/guix.texi: Mention that make clean may need to be run before running
> make check-system when previous builds were run with different work trees. See
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573.

I assume by work tree you do not mean a work tree produced by `git
worktree`, but the state of the source directory.  So:

Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout <at> zaclys.net> writes
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573>:
> $ make check-system
> Compiling Scheme modules...
> ice-9/eval.scm:142:16: In procedure compile-top-call:
> error: channel-source->package: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (gnu ci))'?
>
> make: *** [Makefile:6305: check-system] Error 1

and:

Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com> writes:
> +Compiling Scheme modules...
> +ice-9/eval.scm:142:16: In procedure compile-top-call:
> +error: all-system-tests: unbound variable
> +hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (gnu tests))'?

I do not understand Guix well enough why this could happen.  Since `make
clean-go` helps, the cause must be in Guix’ .go files and not some
cache.  In Makefile.am, the check-system target depends on $(GOBJECTS).

I presume gnu/tests.go and gnu/ci.go should be added to GOBJECTS?
Or gnu/tests.scm and gnu/ci.scm should be added to MODULES?

But I do not really understand.

Regards,
Florian

Message #13 received at 70202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 70202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#70202] [PATCH] doc: Add message for common error about
 make check-system
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:13:03 -0400

Hi Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> writes:

> Hello Richard, I am hesitant because I cannot reproduce the error and it
> might be better to fix it rather than document it.  Looking at,

I can't reliably reproduce the error myself. It simply "comes up" every
now and then if I switch between branches with an existing build and try
rebuilding Guix and rerunning the tests. Agreed, a fix would be
preferred. I have absolutely no idea how.

> I do not understand Guix well enough why this could happen.  Since `make
> clean-go` helps, the cause must be in Guix’ .go files and not some
> cache.  In Makefile.am, the check-system target depends on $(GOBJECTS).
>
> I presume gnu/tests.go and gnu/ci.go should be added to GOBJECTS?
> Or gnu/tests.scm and gnu/ci.scm should be added to MODULES?

I don't believe the issue is limited to those two files in particular
(although it could be). That just happened to be the file causing the
problem when I caught the error and pasted it in the doc.

> But I do not really understand.

That makes two of us. :)

-- 
Take it easy,
Richard Sent
Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

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