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Lack of error message in several guix subcommands

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Alice BRENON <alice.brenon <at> ens-lyon.fr>
Cc: 51463-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51463: Lack of error message in several guix subcommands
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 23:14:36 +0100

Hi Alice,

Alice BRENON <alice.brenon <at> ens-lyon.fr> skribis:

> I was giving guix shell a try today and noticed this annoying lack of
> relevant feedback from the tool: when running on a particularly
> malformed guix.scm, either by auto-loading or by explicitely passing -f
> guix.scm, guix shell returned in error ($? == 1) without printing any
> error message, which is a bit unhelpful.

I believe commit 4d59596a1c5f6b20870e619cbf67068ac7dd64ff fixes it (the
issue affected ‘read-error’ exceptions for reasons other than missing
closing parentheses).

Let me know if anything’s amiss.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

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