Re: 03/08: build: Add dependency on guix script for help2man targets.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Josselin,

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:

> Hi Maxim,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This changes appears to break building my tree, like this:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from guix home
>> Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
>> make[2]: [Makefile:7131 : doc/guix-home.1] Erreur 1 (ignorée)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> It doesn't happen with 'make as-derivation' though, so it seems to have
>> to do with some shenanigan in my checkout.  Any idea how I could fix my
>> checkout without running 'git clean -xfdd' ?
>
> I had the same issue in my local checkout, but it was because of another
> change I committed that was then reverted: it changed the <user-account>
> ABI, and so a lot more files had to get recompiled.  You can try to
> manually run `guix home --help` and see what the error is, if it's an
> ABI error I usually run `grep -Rl "<user-account>" --include '*.go' . |
> xargs rm`.

Thank you for the answer; I had forgotten asking here and eventually
found out the problem by manually running the command as you did :-).

Thanks,

-- 
Maxim