Subject: Re: bug#15052: guix-0.3 make check fails, on gentoo-prefix setup

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:52:06 +0200

Cyprien Nicolas <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Il y a 14 jours, Ludovic Courtès écrivit :
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Cyprien Nicolas <[email-masked]> skribis:
>>
>> > I don't understand all failures, some are due to socket path length:
>> >
>> > ERROR: In procedure connect:
>> > ERROR: In procedure scm_to_sockaddr: unix address path too long: /home/cnicolas/gprefix/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/guix-0.3/work/guix-0.3/test-tmp/var/7770/daemon-socket/socket
>>
>> Apff, yes, that’s a problem.  Guix clients connect to the build daemon
>> over a Unix-domain socket, and that has a shameful 108 character limit
>> on GNU/Linux.  Thus, all the test cases that try to connect to the build
>> daemon fail.
>>
>> As a workaround, you could try to build in a shorter directory, if
>> that’s an option at all.
>
> Yes, I exported PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/tmp before running emerge, and all 19
> tests went fine :-)

Excellent!

BTW, if there’s a Gentoo package for Guix, you might want to send a note
on guix-devel.

Thanks,
Ludo’.