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bug#49985: bash-mesboot0: Inscrutable error in build phase
From: |
Bengt Richter |
Subject: |
bug#49985: bash-mesboot0: Inscrutable error in build phase |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 14:53:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Just this disclaimer:
I am just a lurker interested in mes, not a mes developer or team member.
(I am trying to do some minimal stuff too, so I cloned the mes repo and pull
once
in a while to see what's going on :)
Sorry for any implication that I really know anything about mes ;/
On +2021-08-11 03:21:18 +0200, Bengt Richter wrote:
> On +2021-08-11 02:38:54 +0200, Bengt Richter wrote:
> > On +2021-08-10 15:41:25 -0400, Carl Dong wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > While setting up Guix for a community member of mine, we encountered this
> > > somewhat inscrutable problem (I later learned this is not the first time
> > > Guix users have run into this problem!). When building
> > > /gnu/store/2nvaxgs0rdxfkrwklh622ggaxg0wap6n-bash-mesboot0-2.05b.drv, we
> > > encountered the following build failure:
> > > https://paste.sr.ht/~dongcarl/376b19b8349c329ed5329508c7fb43a7c3aec64b#2nvaxgs0rdxfkrwklh622ggaxg0wap6n-bash-mesboot0-2.05b.log-L1299
> > >
> > > The error line is L1299: "make: stat:Makefile: sterror: unknown error”
> > >--
> >
> > To me, sterror looks like a typo for strerror
> > so grepping for sterror might find the typo, if that's what it is?
> >
> Looking at ./lib/mes/__mes_debug.c, it looks like you could set/export
> environment
> MES_DEBUG=1 and run it again to see the error number ./lib/string/strerror.c
> (in git repo) doesn't like.
>
> Then run something like my error-printing kludge that will work on your
> system:
>
> I called it errno-grep
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> if [ -z "$1" ];then
> echo "Usage: errno-grep [ grep switches for grepping the following files
> in order ]"
> echo " /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h"
> echo " /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h"
> exit 0
> fi
>
> if [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ]; then
> exec grep "$@" /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h
> /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h
> else
> exec egrep -wh "$@" /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h
> /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h
> fi
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> HTH.
>
>
>
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter