Subject: bug#27157: Building Guile 2.2 "times out"

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 23:37:51 +0200

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Guix build doesn't come with default option value for the
> max-silent-time, but guix environment does, and it is set to 3600
> s. This is defined under (guix scripts environment):
>
> (define %default-options
>   `((system . ,(%current-system))
>     (substitutes? . #t)
>     (graft? . #t)
>     (max-silent-time . 3600)
>     (verbosity . 0)))
>
> If this is by design, I guess this issue can be closed.

Good catch!

However, according to ‘set-build-options’ in (guix store),
#:max-silent-time #f is equivalent to #:max-silent-time 3600.

Perhaps the build remains silent for just about an hour and you were
lucky on your second try?

At any rate, it would be good to remove ‘max-silent-time’ from all the
‘%default-options’ variables, for consistency.

Ludo’.