Re: GNU Guix 1.3.0rc2 available for testing!

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello Chris!

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> I tested this, and it works.  Thank you!  I can now build the release
> (with this change) and run the tests (make check) successfully;
> tests/go.scm is just omitted from the tests to run.
>
> By chance, I noticed the following lines below what you added:
>
> if HAVE_GUILE_LIB
> SCM_TESTS += tests/go.scm
> endif
>
> if BUILD_DAEMON_OFFLOAD
> SCM_TESTS  += tests/offload.scm
> else
> EXTRA_DIST += tests/offload.scm
> endif
>
>
> I guess that if we omit tests/go.scm from SCM_TESTS, it not only means
> that the test won't be run, but it also means the test won't get
> included in the tarball distribution ("make dist").  Is that right?  It
> seems undesirable to omit this test from the distribution just because
> the machine on which the distribution was built might have lacked the
> library necessary to run the test.  Someone who builds Guix from the
> distribution might actually have that library installed and thus be able
> to run the test.  To ensure that this test always gets included in the
> distribution, perhaps we should also add it to EXTRA_DIST like so:
>
> diff -u a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> --- a/Makefile.am       2021-05-11 11:09:31.000000000 -0700
> +++ b/Makefile.am       2021-06-02 12:55:06.134793001 -0700
> @@ -457,7 +457,6 @@
>    tests/git-authenticate.scm                   \
>    tests/glob.scm                               \
>    tests/gnu-maintenance.scm                    \
> -  tests/go.scm                                 \
>    tests/grafts.scm                             \
>    tests/graph.scm                              \
>    tests/gremlin.scm                            \
> @@ -505,6 +504,12 @@
>    tests/uuid.scm                               \
>    tests/workers.scm
>
> +if HAVE_GUILE_LIB
> +SCM_TESTS += tests/go.scm
> +else
> +EXTRA_DIST += tests/go.scm
> +endif
> +
>  if BUILD_DAEMON_OFFLOAD
>  SCM_TESTS  += tests/offload.scm
>  else
>
> What do you think?

Well observed!  I test with the following environment, with and without
guile-lib, and could confirm that the tests/go.scm file was missing from
the dist archive when guile-lib was not present.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix environment --ad-hoc --pure autoconf@2.69 automake@1.16.2 bzip2@1.0.8 
disarchive@0.2.1 gettext-minimal@0.20.1 glibc-utf8-locales@2.31 gnutls@3.6.15 
graphviz@2.42.3 guile-avahi@0.4.0-1.6d43caf guile-gcrypt@0.3.0 guile-git@0.5.2 
guile-json@4.5.2 guile-lzlib@0.0.2 guile-sqlite3@0.1.2 guile-ssh@0.13.1 
guile-zlib@0.1.0 guile-zstd@0.1.1 guile@3.0.7 gzip@1.10 help2man@1.47.13 
libgcrypt@1.8.5 pkg-config@0.29.2 po4a@0.63 sqlite@3.31.1 texinfo@6.7 
util-linux@2.35.1 git sed gawk findutils diffutils perl coreutils grep automake 
autoconf gettext xz tar gzip make gcc-toolchain imagemagick help2man
[env]$ ./bootstrap && ./configure && make -j32 && make dist
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

There was a problem where these files had embedded file names:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix-1.3.0rc2.5207-ce515/build-aux/config.guess:#!/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/sh
guix-1.3.0rc2.5207-ce515/build-aux/config.sub:#!/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/sh
guix-1.3.0rc2.5207-ce515/build-aux/install-sh:#!/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/sh
error: store file names embedded in the distribution
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I had not seen this issue and it'll need to be investigated.  For now I
disabled the check to get the dist archive produced.

Pushed with 0f853ab7731da4784a24cad7b08d6b9b633f5787.

Thank you!

Maxim