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Guile 3 fails to build non-deterministically

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45574: closed (Guile 3 fails to build non-deterministically)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:26:01 +0000

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From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Guile 3 fails to build non-deterministically
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:16:40 -0800

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Hi,

If you try to build Guile 3 without substitutes using any recent version
of Guix, it can frequently fail.  I had to try about 12 times
in a row before it succeeded.  The failure simply said "FAIL:
check-guile" - I didn't save the build logs, which were lost once the
build succeeded.  If anyone is interested in debugging, it should be
easy to reproduce.  Just do this:

- Run Guix in a 1-core VM or a similarly slow x86_64-linux system.

- Try to build any recent version of Guile 3 using any recent version of
  Guix.

I've seen the failures happen for Guile 3.0.2 and Guile 3.0.4.  I
observed this on a 1-core VM, so perhaps a slow system exacerbates this
bug.  This can make running "guix pull" without substitutes tedious,
since you have to manually retry many times.

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Chris

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 45574-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45574: Guile 3 fails to build non-deterministically
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:20:38 +0200

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> If you try to build Guile 3 without substitutes using any recent version
> of Guix, it can frequently fail.  I had to try about 12 times
> in a row before it succeeded.  The failure simply said "FAIL:
> check-guile" - I didn't save the build logs, which were lost once the
> build succeeded.  If anyone is interested in debugging, it should be
> easy to reproduce.  Just do this:
>
> - Run Guix in a 1-core VM or a similarly slow x86_64-linux system.
>
> - Try to build any recent version of Guile 3 using any recent version of
>   Guix.
>
> I've seen the failures happen for Guile 3.0.2 and Guile 3.0.4.  I
> observed this on a 1-core VM, so perhaps a slow system exacerbates this
> bug.  This can make running "guix pull" without substitutes tedious,
> since you have to manually retry many times.

I don’t think that applies to 3.0.9, or at least I haven’t seen any such
failures or reports thereof.  Closing!

Ludo’.

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