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[PATCH] doc: Add message for common error about make check-system

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70202: closed ([PATCH] doc: Add message for common error
 about make check-system)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:11:03 +0000

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From: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Cc: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add message for common error about make check-system
Date: Thu,  4 Apr 2024 17:17:03 -0400

* doc/guix.texi: Mention that make clean may need to be run before running
make check-system when previous builds were run with different work trees. See
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573.

Change-Id: I39d465961637d9fc6b11f59e1500770220780b4c
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Hi Guix!

Ran into this issue myself. It seems common enough to be worth
mentioning in the docs, similar to the message in (guix) Building from
Git.

I found my solution from https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573.

>    If you get an error like this one:
> 
>      configure.ac:46: error: possibly undefined macro: PKG_CHECK_MODULES


 doc/guix.texi | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index ef9e4216b4..72cac183a5 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1177,6 +1177,23 @@ Running the Test Suite
 substitutes are available for their dependencies (@pxref{Substitutes}).
 Some of them require a lot of storage space to hold VM images.
 
+If you encounter an error like this one:
+
+@example
+Compiling Scheme modules...
+ice-9/eval.scm:142:16: In procedure compile-top-call:
+error: all-system-tests: unbound variable
+hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (gnu tests))'?
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+there may be inconsistency in the work tree from previous builds.  Try
+running:
+
+@example
+make clean && make
+@end example
+
 Again in case of test failures, please send @email{bug-guix@@gnu.org}
 all the details.
 

base-commit: ade6845da6cec99f3bca46faac9b2bad6877817e
-- 
2.41.0

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Florian Pelz <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>, 71580-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Matthew Trzcinski <matt <at> excalamus.com>
Subject: Re: [bug#71580] [PATCH v2] doc: Add message for common error about
 make check-system
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:09:09 -0400

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Richard Sent <richard <at> freakingpenguin.com> writes:
>
>> * doc/contributing.texi (Running the Test Suite): Mention that make clean-go
>> may need to be run before running make check-system when previous builds were
>> run with different work trees. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47573.
>>
>> Change-Id: I4b68d3a05f1425505816db969284487d725840d6
>
> Reviewed-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail>

Applied locally.  Will push shortly.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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