Subject: Re: bug#27042: test-package.sh fails on aarch64

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:27:50 +0200

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 09:53:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:
>> 
>> > On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 11:13:05AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> >> > guix: offload: command not found
>> >> 
>> >> And “./pre-inst-env guile -c '(use-modules (ssh key))'” fails as well I
>> >> guess?
>> >> 
>> >> That would mean that Guile-SSH was found at configure time (i.e., it was
>> >> in GUILE_LOAD_PATH) but has since disappeared or become unusable (e.g.,
>> >> GUILE_LOAD_PATH is different and no longer includes it, or Guile-SSH has
>> >> been uninstalled, or a Guile-SSH is installed but it’s one for Guile 2.0
>> >> and you’re using 2.2 or vice-versa, etc.).
>> >> 
>> >> Does this hypothesis hold?  :-)
>> >> 
>> >
>> > firefly@firefly$ which guile
>> > firefly@firefly$ guix environment --ad-hoc guile -- ./pre-inst-env guile -c '((use-modules (ssh key))'
>> > ...snip...
>> > ;;; compiling /gnu/store/...-guile-ssh-0.11.0/share/guile/site/2.2/ssh/key.scm
>> > ;;; compiling /gnu/store/...-guile-ssh-0.11.0/share/guile/site/2.2/ssh/log.scm
>> > ;;; ssh/log.scm:65:4: warning: possibly unbound variable `%write-log'
>> > ;;; compiled ...
>> > ;;; compiled ...
>> > firefly@firefly$ env | grep guile
>> > firefly@firefly$ env | grep GUILE
>> > firefly@firefly$
>> 
>> Could it be that ‘guix environment’ sources your shell startup file
>> (e.g., .bashrc), and that said file adds Guile-SSH to GUILE_LOAD_PATH?
>> 
>> That would explain while the first command finds Guile-SSH while “env”
>> outside of ‘guix environment’ shows that GUILE_LOAD_PATH is unset.
>> 
>> Ludo’.
>
> I went back to a previous email and reran the 'guix offload' command.
>
> firefly@firefly:$ ./pre-inst-env guix offload:
> guix: offload: command not found
>
> firefly@firefly:$ guix offload:
> guix offload: error: invalid arguments:
>
> so it looks like guile-json and guile-ssh are not pulled in with
> './pre-inst-env guix'
>
> firefly@firefly:$ guix environment -- env
> ...snip...
> GUILE_LOAD_COMPLETED_PATH=/gnu/store/...guile-json:/gnu/store/...guile-ssh:/gnu/store/...guile2.2-gnutls

What does “./pre-inst-env guile -c '(use-modules (guix scripts offload))'”
say?

Ludo’.