Subject: Re: bug#51463: Lack of error message in several guix subcommands
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Alice BRENON <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 23:14:36 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Alice,

Alice BRENON <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I was giving guix shell a try today and noticed this annoying lack of
> relevant feedback from the tool: when running on a particularly
> malformed guix.scm, either by auto-loading or by explicitely passing -f
> guix.scm, guix shell returned in error ($? == 1) without printing any
> error message, which is a bit unhelpful.

I believe commit 4d59596a1c5f6b20870e619cbf67068ac7dd64ff fixes it (the
issue affected ‘read-error’ exceptions for reasons other than missing
closing parentheses).

Let me know if anything’s amiss.

Thanks!

Ludo’.