Subject: Re: bug#30879: Commit bc499b113 broke guix on [email-masked], improper <operating-system> field initialization

From: Eric Bavier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:16:42 -0500

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:12:02AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> That sounds a lot like regular ABI breakage: a new <operating-system>
> field was added but gnu/tests/base.go wasn’t rebuilt, and thus was
> expecting the previous struct layout.
> 
> Does “rm gnu/tests/base.go && make” suffice to fix this issue?

No, it doesn't help.  Previously I had been running "make clean-go"
before each "make.

The error/backtrace is issued when build-aux/compile-all.scm tries to
load gnu/tests/base.scm, before it even gets to compilation.

-- 
Eric Bavier, Scientific Libraries, Cray Inc.