Subject: Re: bug#15615: Pulseaudio build fails

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:15:28 +0200

David Thompson <[email-masked]> skribis:

> `guix build pulseaudio` fails because of the following test:
>
> Running suite(s): Memblock
> shm_open() failed: Function not implemented

I think you hit the /dev/shm issue described in a footnote (info "(guix)
Setting Up the Daemon").

(Of course, re-open this bug if this is not the case.)

I’m not sure how to better avoid that situation.  Perhaps ‘guix-daemon’
could explicitly check whether /dev/shm is a symlink and emit a warning
if it is?

OTOH this won’t be a problem on the GNU distro where everything will be
correctly setup.

Thanks,
Ludo’.