bug#28087: "guix build: error: no build log for gnu-store-pathto.drv" with previously offloaded successful build

[Ludovic Courtès]

ng0,

Does “guix build --log-file” work for you now?

I’d suggest closing this bug unless you have more info to provide.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Hi ng0,
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I offload my builds by default.
>> The build in question succeeded. Now I wanted to read the log of the 
>> successful build to check
>> the configure options.
>> I thought I'd just do:
>>
>> guix build --log-file --no-grafts --check --no-build-hook --rounds=2 
>> --verbosity=5 mate-session-manager
>
> Note: don’t use “--log-file” along with “--check”; these are two
> different things.
>
>> Verbosity was just added later, and so was --check and --no-grafts and 
>> --rounds.
>> The only time I did not get was when the build was grafted, which got me a 
>> log
>> file with the content of the graft locationA -> locationB in it.
>>
>> Every other try just gives me:
>> guix build: error: no build log for 
>> '/gnu/store/l5cznxxdnbf803mkjavmg9kajicy7751-mate-session-manager-1.18.1.drv'
>>
>> Is this a bug or just a mistake of where I put "--log-file"?
>
> Can you still reproduce this?
>
> If so, can you manually check whether the log file you’re looking for is
> actually in /var/log/guix/drvs on your machine?
>
> TIA,
> Ludo’.