Subject: bug#52708: [BUG] Guix checkout fails `make check`

From: Christopher Rodriguez <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:21:58 -0500

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                 [BUG] GUIX CHECKOUT FAILS `MAKE CHECK`

                                 yewscion
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Table of Contents
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1. Environment
2. Steps to reproduce
3. Expected Result
4. Actual Result
5. Visual Proof (screenshots, videos, text)
6. Severity/Priority

1 Environment
=============

   - *Device:* Linode Virtual Server, and Lenovo Thinkpad E14.
   - *OS:* Guix System, and a workplace-modified version of Ubuntu.
   - *Commits:* guix: `2c469f04a3bec27b1f49680c638814bc06075b9a`.
   - *Substitutes:* Enabled.
   - *Additional Channels:* None inside of `guix shell --pure -D \
     guix`.
   - *Blast Radius:* Two Failed Checks (guix-pack-relocatable.sh and
     guix-git-autenticate.sh).

2 Steps to reproduce
====================

   1. *Clone:* Run `git clone
       <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git>`.

   2. *Enter Dev Environment:* `cd guix && guix shell --pure -D guix`.

   3. *Bootstrap and Configure:* `./bootstrap && ./configure
       --localstatedir=/var`.

   4. *Make and Check:* `make && make check`.

3 Expected Result
=================

   All tests should pass or be skipped.

4 Actual Result
===============

   2 FAILs, and 1 XFAIL. (guix-pack-relocatable.sh and
     guix-git-autenticate.sh)

5 Visual Proof (screenshots, videos, text)
==========================================

   Attached are personally created logs of each step of the process. For
   further clarity, here is the output of `git -C ~/Downloads/guix log -n
   1` and `guix describe` on my GuixSD install. And because I discovered
   it after the fact, I've also attached the two logfiles created by the
   above process (config.log and testsuite.log).

   #+name git -C ~/Downloads/guix log -n 1
   ,----
   | commit 9834ff5d3293b2af728b41314c18ca7fb2081efe (HEAD -> master, 
origin/master, origin/HEAD)
   | Author: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
   | Date:   Tue Dec 21 16:15:03 2021 +0200
   |
   | gnu: binutils-gold: Skip gold testsuite on some architectures.
   |
   |   * gnu/packages/base.scm (binutils-gold)[arguments]: Add a phase 
on some
   |   architecturest to skip the gold testsuite.
   `----

   #+name guix describe
   ,----
   | [16.0] {12:12} ming@gorse:~/$ guix describe
   | Generation 18    Dec 20 2021 13:39:05    (current)
   | guix 84fe3a8
   |   repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
   |   branch: master
   |   commit: 84fe3a88179d5a6a5c619c408a4fd4fe2a779652
   | yewscion 84d82fe
   |   repository URL: https://git.sr.ht/~yewscion/yewscion-guix-channel
   |   branch: trunk
   |   commit: 84d82fede37110a34e2df5e1712eb3bf934936cf
   `----

6 Severity/Priority
===================

   5 (Lowest Priority)