Re: Strange error when adding module gnu/packages/engineering

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Guixers
>
> I'm in the process of adding a package to guix. When starting the
> build with ./pre-inst-env guix build openfoam-org I get the error:
>
> error: tcc: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: googletest: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: bzip2: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: binutils: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: gcc-4.9: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: gnutls: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: xz: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: gnu-make: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: binutils: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?
>
> error: ffmpeg-5: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form?

This looks like the kind of (misleading) error thrown when there are top
level dependency cycle problems.  These are not fun to debug.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim