Subject: bug#23165: Test suite failures building 0.10.0 on CentOS7

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:44:31 +0200

retitle 23165 Tests fail when 'HOME' is unset
close 23165
thanks

[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> "Cook, Malcolm" <[email-masked]> skribis:

[...]

>> In guix/cve.scm:
>>   76: 2 [call-with-cve-port # 518400 ...]
>> In guix/http-client.scm:
>>  300: 1 [http-fetch/cached # # 518400 ...]
>> In unknown file:
>>    ?: 0 [string-append #f "/http/" "Fjb931UJRoTPOjHq6hc1oawK9bCopdhOoX9grKLx71Q="]
>>
>> ERROR: In procedure string-append:
>> ERROR: In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f'
>
> This is a harmless failure: it indicates that neither the HOME nor the
> XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variables are defined in the build
> environment.

Commit dd1d09f7e4c522d2185eda9c806ea525e10172be should avoid this
situation.

Ludo’.