Subject: bug#49985: bash-mesboot0: Inscrutable error in build phase

From: Bengt Richter <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:38:54 +0200

On +2021-08-10 15:41:25 -0400, Carl Dong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While setting up Guix for a community member of mine, we encountered this somewhat inscrutable problem (I later learned this is not the first time Guix users have run into this problem!). When building /gnu/store/2nvaxgs0rdxfkrwklh622ggaxg0wap6n-bash-mesboot0-2.05b.drv, we encountered the following build failure: https://paste.sr.ht/~dongcarl/376b19b8349c329ed5329508c7fb43a7c3aec64b#2nvaxgs0rdxfkrwklh622ggaxg0wap6n-bash-mesboot0-2.05b.log-L1299
> 
> The error line is L1299: "make: stat:Makefile: sterror: unknown error”
>--

To me, sterror looks like a typo for strerror
so grepping for sterror might find the typo, if that's what it is?

Regards,
Bengt Richter