GNU bug report logs - #57581
Failing to build the website

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 15:19:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 57581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>,
 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 57581 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#57581: Failing to build the website
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 19:14:28 +0200


Le 7 septembre 2022 19:07:10 GMT+02:00, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>Well, the field reads,
>
>+    (license (package-home-page qtbase))))
>
>so why is the compiler accepting that?  Is a warning raised?
>

No warning because the compiler has no way to know you don't want to do that. license is a field, and fields don't have a specific type except for convention.

package-home-page will read a field from another object, return a perfectly valid Scgeme object (a string) and Scheme is happy to put it in the license field. Why would it care? (:

It fails much later when something tries to read the license field and gets a string it treats as a license object.
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