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Building Guix from within a container

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
Cc: 26366 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26366: Building Guix from within a container
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 14:38:40 +0200

Hi Clément,

Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:

> I had a lot of trouble building Guix recently (is it related with Guile
> 2.2?).  Or it did build but then 'guix' command produced things like:
>
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /home/clement/.config/guix/latest/guix/ui.go failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object file: "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01�\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
> ;;; note: source file /home/clement/.config/guix/latest/guix/ui.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled /gnu/store/my64yq4r2ii0bblvsbfnjq5bnkivvn07-guix-0.12.0-5.1162/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/ui.go
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /home/clement/.config/guix/latest/guix/utils.go failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object file: "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01�\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
> ;;; note: source file /home/clement/.config/guix/latest/guix/utils.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled /gnu/store/my64yq4r2ii0bblvsbfnjq5bnkivvn07-guix-0.12.0-5.1162/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/utils.go
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /home/clement/.config/guix/latest/guix/config.go failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object file: "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01�\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
> ;;; note: source file /home/clement/.config/guix/latest/guix/config.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled /gnu/store/my64yq4r2ii0bblvsbfnjq5bnkivvn07-guix-0.12.0-5.1162/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/config.go

These warnings come from Guile 2.0 trying to load Guile 2.2 .go files
(in 2.2, .go files are ELF files; in 2.0, it’s a custom format.)

They’re annoying but harmless and just mean that you have a mixture of
2.2 and 2.0 files in GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH.

HTH!

Ludo’.

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