Subject: bug#18700: GNU Lightening fails to build on all platforms

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:55:15 -0400

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:35:23PM +0000, Joshua Branson wrote:
> 	This still seems to be an issue.  The latest builds are from January of 2015.  

There are successful builds on x86_64 that are more recent:

https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/lightning-2.1.0.x86_64-linux

It fails consistently on mips64el:

https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/lightning-2.1.0.mips64el-linux

> guix package -s lightening produces no output.
> 
> And I cannot find lightening on the packages list on the guixSD
> website, which I suppose is obvious.  If the package fails to build,
> then it wouldn’t be included with guix yet.

You didn't find it because the package is called 'lightning' — note the
spelling difference :)