GNU bug report logs - #75080
guix pull fails on arm64 due to cmake DEB self-tests

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>

Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 75080 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75080: guix pull fails on arm64 due to cmake DEB self-tests
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:52:30 -0500

On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 12:18:41AM +0100, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> Looking more carefully at the errors, I notice this part:
> 
>    actual-err>    cpack-cfg> set(DPKG_EXECUTABLE "/usr/bin/dpkg")
>    actual-err>    cpack-cfg> set(READELF_EXECUTABLE "/gnu/store/pqai4n95zn5wdw430gslb00sb967jdg8-binutils-2.41/bin/readelf")
> 
> So for some reason building cmake-bootstrap in guix in Debian picks up
> Debian's /usr/bin/dpkg, doesn't it?!
> 
> I suppose that Guix's build servers aren't running Debian, so it won't
> find any /usr/bin/dpkg.

It would be really surprising if '/usr/bin/dpkg' could be found or
accessed from within the package build environment, unless the build
isolation has been disabled.

Are you able to confirm if that is what's happening?
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